Title Odd women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s / Emma Liggins

Published Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 275 pages) Summary Women outside marriage between 1850 and the Second World War were seen as abnormal, threatening, superfluous and incomplete, whilst also being hailed as 'women of the future'. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters, yet by the 1930s spinsters, lesbians and widows had become heroines. This book considers how Victorian and modernist women's writing challenged the heterosexual plot and reconfigured conceptualisations of public and private space in order to valorise female oddity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 16, 2016) Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women in literature. Single women in literature. Widows in literature. Lesbians in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century English fiction English fiction -- Women authors Lesbians in literature Single women in literature Widows in literature Women in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781526111654 1526111659 9781781707296 1781707294 1781706859 9781781706855

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