New Women
Patricia Beer
- The Odd Women by George Gissing
Virago, 336 pp, £2.50, May 1980, ISBN 0 86068 140 8 - The Beth Book by Sarah Grand
Virago, 527 pp, £3.50, January 1980, ISBN 0 86068 088 6
George Gissing was convinced that the year 1900 would make all the difference. Writing his study of Charles Dickens in the late 1890s, he refers to his own generation as those ‘upon whom the new centurys breaking’. And one of the things the new century would bring was the New Woman.
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