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Odd Women? - Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women's Fiction, 1850s-1930s (Hardcover)
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Odd Women? - Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women's Fiction, 1850s-1930s (Hardcover)
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This genealogy of the 'odd woman' compares representations of
spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction and
auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s. Women outside
heterosexual marriage in this period were seen as abnormal,
superfluous, incomplete and threatening, yet were also hailed as
'women of the future'. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised,
minor characters in British women's fiction, yet by the 1930s
spinsters, lesbians and widows had become heroines. This book
examines how women writers, including Charlotte Bronte, Elisabeth
Gaskell, Ella Hepworth Dixon, May Sinclair, E. H. Young, Radclyffe
Hall, Winifred Holtby and Virginia Woolf, challenged dominant
perceptions of singleness and lesbianism in their novels, stories
and autobiographies. Drawing on advice literature, medical texts
and feminist polemic, it demonstrates how these narratives
responded to contemporary political controversies around the vote,
women's work, sexual inversion and birth control, as well as
examining the impact of the First World War. -- .
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