The Odd Women
The Odd Women
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Overview
Alice and Virginia Madden, suddenly left adrift by the death of their improvident father, must take grinding and humiliating "genteel" work. Terrified of sharing their fate, their younger sister Monica accepts a proposal of marriage from a man who gives her financial security but makes her life wretched.
Interwoven with their fortunes are Mary Barfoot and Rhoda Nunn, who are dedicating their lives to training young women in skills they can use to support themselves. Their broader aim is to help free both sexes from whatever distorts or depletes their humanity - including, if necessary, marriage. Into their lives comes Mary's engaging and forceful cousin Everard Barfoot, and as he and Rhoda become locked in an increasingly significant and passionate struggle, Rhoda finds out through the refining fire what "love" sometimes means and what it means to be true to herself.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781961884243 |
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| Publisher: | The Unnamed Press |
| Publication date: | 11/26/2024 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d) |
About the Author
Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan Universityand a contributing writer at the New Yorker.
Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic. He serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University. His graphic novel, Olivia Twist, was published by Dark Horse in 2019. Adam was previously a judge of the 2022 Story Prize, the Books Editor of Words Without Borders, and the Senior Fiction Editor of Guernica.
Allison Miriam Smith is a co-founder of Smith & Taylor Classics. She is also an Acquiring Editor and Publishing & Publicity Manager for Unnamed Press. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California where she was an assistant curator for the USC Doheny Library George Cassady Lewis Carroll Special Collection. She later went on to earn a Masters in 18th & 19th c. Literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, working nights at the library. Before Unnamed Press, she was a bookseller Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA.
Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He is an Acquiring Editor at Unnamed Press and co-founder of Smith & Taylor Classics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction A Note on the Text George Gissing: A Brief ChronologyThe Odd Women
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews
- Glasgow Herald 20 April 1893
- Saturday Review 29 April 1893
- Athenaeum 27 May 1893
- Pall Mall Gazette 29 May 1893
- Nation (New York) 13 July 1893
- Illustrated London News (Clementia Black) 5 August 1893
Appendix B: Attitudes Towards Women and Marriage in Victorian Culture
- Sarah Ellis, from The Daughters of England (1842)
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, from The Princess (1847)
- Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House: “The Rose of the World” (1854)
- Thomas Henry Huxley, from “Emancipation—Black and White,” Reader (20 May 1865)
- John Ruskin, from “Of Queens’ Gardens,” in Sesame and Lilies (1865)
- John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869)
- Mona Caird, from “Marriage,” Westminster Review (1888)
Appendix C: Debate over the “Woman Question”
- Grant Allen, from “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review (October 1889)
- Bernard Shaw, from “The Womanly Woman,” The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
- Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Politicians,” Nineteenth Century (July 1891)
- Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Insurgents,” Nineteenth Century (October 1891)
- Mona Caird, “A Defense of the So-Called ‘Wild Women’,” Nineteenth Century (May 1891)
- From “Character Note: The New Woman” Cornhill Magazine (October 1894)
- Nat Arling, “What is the Role of the ‘New Woman?’” Westminster Review (November 1898)
Appendix D: Women and Paid Employment: The Limitations of Aspirations and the Actualities
- Charlotte Brontë, from Shirley (1849)
- From “The Disputed Question,” English Woman’s Journal (August 1858)
- Evelyn March Phillips, from “The Working Lady in London,” Fortnightly Review (August 1892)
- Clara Collet, from “The Employment of Women,” Report to the Royal Commission on Labour (1893)
- Frances H. Low, from “How Poor Ladies Live,” Nineteenth Century (March 1897)
- Eliza Orme, from “How Poor Ladies Live: A Reply,” Nineteenth Century (April 1897)
Appendix E: Conditions of Work for Men in the White-Collar Sector
- James Fitzjames Stephen, from “Gentlemen” Cornhill Magazine (March 1862)
- B.O. Orchard, from The Clerks of Liverpool (1871)
- Charles Edward Parsons, from Clerks: their Position and Advancement (1876)
- Thomas Sutherst, from Death and Disease Behind the Counter (1884)
- H.G. Wells, from Kipps (1905)
- H.G. Wells, from Experiment in Autobiography (1934)
Appendix F: Map of London (1892)
Selected Bibliography