The Odd Women
Written by George Gissing
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
4.5/5
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George Gissing
George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist. Born in Yorkshire, he excelled as a student from a young age, earning a scholarship to Owens College where he won prizes for his poetry and academic writing. Expelled and arrested for a series of thefts in 1876, Gissing was forced to leave England for the United States, teaching classics and working as a short story writer in Massachusetts and Chicago. The following year, he returned to England and embarked on a career as a professional novelist, publishing works of naturalism inspired by his experience of poverty and the works of Charles Dickens. After going through an acrimonious divorce, Gissing remarried in 1891 and entered a turbulent relationship with Edith Alice Underwood, with whom he raised two children before separating in 1897. During this time, after writing several unpublished novels, Gissing found success with New Grub Street (1891), Born in Exile (1892), and The Odd Women (1893). In the last years of his life, Gissing befriended H.G. Wells and travelled throughout Italy, Germany, and France, where he died after falling ill during a winter walk.
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Readers find this title to have well-developed characters and explore early feminist thinking. The narration by Juliette Stevenson is clear and entertaining. It is a coherent and enjoyable addition to reading the novel."
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The reader, Juliet Stevenson, voices the novel in an understandable and entertaining way. It is coherent enough to listen without the text in front of you, but it also makes a wonderful addition to reading the novel.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Juliette Stevenson reads the characters very well. The book argues the case against New Women although Gissing develops all the different aspects of the Women Question he falls on the pessimism that such a movement brings. So he sees only misery in women remaining single.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The female relationships and the clarity of the romantic relationships…the early feminist thinking.