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Download or read book The Odd Women written by George George Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Madden died prematurely, failing to provide his six daughters with anything but a bookcase full of poetry and romantic novels. His savings were too scarce for the girls to live comfortably, so they had to find jobs and leave their family house. Poor Gertrude, Martha, and Isabel had died too; they weren't prepared for harshness of reality. Alice moved to London and so did Virginia. They hoped to find well-paid jobs there and help Monica, the baby of the family and the prettiest one among them. They believed that at least she would marry and settle down.

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Download or read book George Gissing the Odd Women written by George R. Gissing and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the acknowledged masterpieces of Victorian-era literary realism, George Gissing's novel The Odd Women portrays the plight of unmarried women in nineteenth-century England, probing the question of the financial and psychological well-being of those who were not able to find suitable matches. Recognized by critics as an early feminist text, this novel is a must-read for fans of historical -- and socially significant -- fiction.

Download or read book George Gissing The Odd Women written by George R. Gissing and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield. Gissing loved school. He was enthusiastic with a thirst for learning and always diligent. By the age of ten he was reading Dickens, a lifelong hero. In 1872 Gissing won a scholarship to Owens College. Whilst there Gissing worked hard but remained solitary. Unfortunately, he had run short of funds and stole from his fellow students. He was arrested, prosecuted, found guilty, expelled and sentenced to a month's hard labour in 1876. On release he decided to start over. In September 1876 he travelled to the United States. Here he wrote short stories for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. On his return home he was ready for novels. Gissing self-published his first novel but it failed to sell. His second was acquired but never published. His writing career was static. Something had to change. And it did. By 1884 The Unclassed was published. Now everything he wrote was published. Both Isabel Clarendon and Demos appeared in 1886. He mined the lives of the working class as diligently as any capitalist. In 1889 Gissing used the proceeds from the sale of The Nether World to go to Italy. This trip formed the basis for his 1890 work The Emancipated. Gissing's works began to command higher payments. New Grub Street (1891) brought a fee of 250. Short stories followed and in 1895, three novellas were published; Eve's Ransom, The Paying Guest and Sleeping Fires. Gissing was careful to keep up with the changing attitudes of his audience. Unfortunately, he was also diagnosed as suffering from emphysema. The last years of his life were spent as a semi-invalid in France but he continued to write. 1899; The Crown of Life. Our Friend the Charlatan appeared in 1901, followed two years later by The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. George Robert Gissing died aged 46 on December 28th, 1903 after catching a chill on a winter walk.

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