In “The Odd Women” he follows the lives of five women who struggle to make sense of a world where they are treated as second class citizens. However, not all of the characters in his ground-breaking work accept the limitations and strict moral code that the conservative society in which they lived imposed on women some dream of a better world where their hopes and aspirations can be realised and where equality of opportunity and conduct with men is a reality.īest known for New Grub Street (1891), selected by The Guardian as one of the best 100 novels ever written, Gissing was a polemicist whose work, like Dickens’s, turned a spotlight on the injustices of the world in which he lived and proposed the possibility of a more equal and open society. George Gissing’s novel, written in 1893, examines the plight of such women in late Victorian Britain – the governesses and unmarried ladies, and the women who chose marriage as an escape from a lonely or impoverished spinsterhood. In Dublin’s Mount Jerome Cemetery a headstone bears a poignant epitaph erected by “The Home for Aged Governesses and Other Unmarried Ladies” in memory of the 171 ladies who resided there from 1838 to 1917. The Odd Women – George Gissing – Audible Book Review
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