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050 4 $aPR878.W6$bL54 2014
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100 1 $aLiggins, Emma,$eauthor.
245 10 $aOdd women? :$bspinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s /$cEmma Liggins.
264 1 $aManchester :$bManchester University Press,$c2014.
264 2 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan
300 $aviii, 275 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 8 $aThis 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 Brontë, 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. 0.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aSingle women in literature.
650 0 $aWidows in literature.
650 0 $aLesbians in literature.
852 00 $bglx$hPR878.W6$iL54 2014