The Odd Women

novel by Gissing

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In George Gissing
…women he is particularly acute: The Odd Women (1893) is a powerful study of female frustration. He did not lack human sympathies, but his obvious contempt for so many of his characters reflects an artistic limitation. Gissing was deeply critical, in an almost wholly negative way, of contemporary society. Of…
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