Odd Women?
Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women’s Fiction, 1850s1930s
Emma Liggins
This 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 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.
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| ISBN | 9780719087561 |
| Genre | Literary Criticism; Literary History |
| Copyright Date | 2014 |
| Publication Date | 2014 |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 275 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | English Fiction – History And Criticism; English Fiction – Women Authors; Lesbians in literature; Single Women In Literature; Widows In Literature; Women in literature |
| BookID | 9110 |
