Odd Women?: Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women's Fiction, 1850s–1930s by Emma Liggins

Odd Women?: Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women's Fiction, 1850s–1930s

Emma Liggins

283 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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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.Women outside heterosexual marriage in this period were seen as abnormal, superf...

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