03129oam 2200721zu 450 991015430960332120240501131844.01-78170-685-9(CKB)3710000000340220(SSID)ssj0001420370(PQKBManifestationID)12595211(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420370(PQKBWorkID)11398558(PQKB)10903129(StDuBDS)EDZ0000982616(MiAaPQ)EBC4705464(EXLCZ)99371000000034022020160829d2014 uy engur|||||||||||txtccrOdd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s1st ed.Manchester :Manchester University Press,2015.1 online resourceBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7190-8756-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Female 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.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.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen in literatureSingle women in literatureWidows in literatureLesbians in literatureEnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCEnglish LiteratureHILCCEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women in literature.Single women in literature.Widows in literature.Lesbians in literature.EnglishLanguages & LiteraturesEnglish Literature810/820HG 431rvkHL 2045rvkHL 2865rvkHM 4815rvkLiggins Emma1079671PQKBBOOK9910154309603321Odd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s2886623UNINA