\'One of the great feminist novels of the 19th century\' - Vivian Gornick George Gissing \'s intensely modern The Odd Women is one of the truly great novels of nineteenth-century fiction.
When she is befriended by two independent women, who strive to educ.
The impoverished Madden sisters are ill-equiped to support themselves when their father dies, and Monica sees her only chance of escape from a life of grinding misery in marriage. \'One of the great feminist novels of the 19th century\' - Vivian Gornick George Gissing \'s intensely modern The Odd Women is one of the truly great novels of nineteenth-century fiction