Emma Liggins

Odd women? (eBook, ePUB)

Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s-1930s

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This genealogy of the odd woman compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111647
• Artikelnr.: 48795438

Autorenporträt

Emma Liggins is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Female redundancy
widowhood and the mid-Victorian heroine 2. Bachelor girls
mistresses and the New Woman heroine 3. Spinster heroines
aunts and widowed mothers
1910-39 4. The misfit lesbian heroine of interwar fiction 5. Professional spinsters
older women and widowed heroines in the 1930s Conclusion Index