Gissing George - The Odd Women - Paperback Conscious Darcy she found him proud

Darcy she found him proud distant and rude despite the other ladies admiration of his estate in Derbyshire and ten thousand pounds a year

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Although her younger brother Patrick appears the same Liza knows that he is actually quite different

Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's life

Gissing George - The Odd Women - Paperback Conscious Darcy she found him proudBinding: Paperback Description: `there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours So many odd women no making a pair with them. The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the ` New Woman novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women (1893) Gissing satirizes the prevailing literary image of the ` New Woman and makes the point that unmarried women were generally viewed less as noble and romantic