LEADER 03111oam 2200709zu 450 001 9910154309603321 005 20210731015204.0 010 $a1-78170-685-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000340220 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420370 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12595211 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420370 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11398558 035 $a(PQKB)10903129 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000982616 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4705464 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000340220 100 $a20160829d2014 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOdd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s 210 1$aManchester :$cManchester University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7190-8756-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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. 330 8 $aWomen 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism$y19th century 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism$y20th century 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aSingle women in literature 606 $aWidows in literature 606 $aLesbians in literature 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aWomen in literature 615 0$aSingle women in literature 615 0$aWidows in literature 615 0$aLesbians in literature 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aEnglish Literature 676 $a810/820 686 $aHG 431$2rvk 686 $aHL 2045$2rvk 686 $aHL 2865$2rvk 686 $aHM 4815$2rvk 700 $aLiggins$b Emma$01079671 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154309603321 996 $aOdd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s$92886623 997 $aUNINA