Odd Women

`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 view...