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001 2014434047
003 DLC
005 20150422093202.0
008 141202s2014 enk b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9780719087561 (hbk.)
020 $a0719087562 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn875151510
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100 1 $aLiggins, Emma.
245 10 $aOdd Women? :$bspinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s /$cEmma Liggins.
260 $aManchester ;$aNew York :$bManchester University Press,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 275 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [260]-271) and index.
520 8 $aThis genealogy of the odd woman compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women 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 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.
505 0 $aFemale redundancy, widowhood and the mid-Victorian heroine -- Bachelor girls, mistresses and the New Woman heroine -- Spinster heroines, aunts and widowed mothers, 1910-39 -- The misfit lesbian heroine of inter-war fiction -- Professional spinsters, older women and widowed heroines in the 1930s.
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.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014434047-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014434047-t.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014434047-b.html