The Odd Women, by George Gissing | #FeministVictorians

my next feminist Victorians video is going to be on Jill by Amy Dillon which I read recently and was fascinating

the nether world as a novel is very critical of middle class people trying to help working-class people in what in the Victorian period it's usually a very kind of paternalistic way where the middle classes were trying to better the working classes but they were basically treating them like children

I think the odd women is just a really wonderful novel and about women demanding and claiming intelligence and decent lives and about what single women could do and couldn't do within the Victorian period I think it's just a truly amazing novel and so fascinating