The Odd Women
Five odd women-women without husbands-are the subject of this powerful novel, set in Victorian London, by a writer whose perceptions about people, particularly women, would be remarkable in any age and are extraordinary in the 1890s. The story concerns the choices that five different women have to make and what those choices imply about men's and women's status in society and relationship to each other.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 wh…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-00610-0
- EAN: 9780393006100
- Produktnummer: 9377429
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1971
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.3 cm 367 g
- Gewicht: 367
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