Odd Women? : spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Liggins, Emma
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. Women in literature. Single women in literature. Widows in literature. Lesbians in literature.

Table of Contents:

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.