The Odd Women Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction

George Gissing: A Brief Chronology

A Note on the Text

The Odd Women

Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews

1. Glasgow Herald 20 April 1893
2. Saturday Review 29 April 1893
3. Athenaeum 27 May 1893
4. Pall Mall Gazette 29 May 1893
5. Nation (New York) 13 July 1893
6. Illustrated London News (Clementia Black) 5 August 1893

Appendix B: Attitudes Towards Women and Marriage in Victorian Culture

1. Sarah Ellis, from The Daughters of England (1842)
2. Alfred Lord Tennyson, from The Princess (1847)
3. Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House: "The Rose of the World" (1854)
4. Thomas Henry Huxley, from "Emancipation—Black and White," Reader (1865)
5. John Ruskin, from "Of Queens' Gardens," in Sesame and Lilies (1865)
6. John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869)
7. Mona Caird, from "Marriage," Westminster Review (1888)

Appendix C: Debate over the "Woman Question"

1. Grant Allen, from "Plain Words on the Woman Question," The Fortnightly Review (1889)
2. Bernard Shaw, from "The Womanly Woman," The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891)
3. Eliza Lynn Linton, from "The Wild Women: As Politicians," Nineteenth Century (1891)
4. Eliza Lynn Linton, from "The Wild Women: As Insurgents," Nineteenth Century (1891)
5. Mona Caird, "A Defense of the So-Called 'Wild Women'," Nineteenth Century (1891)
6. From "Character Note: The New Woman" Cornhill Magazine (1894)
7. Nat Arling, "What is the Role of the 'New Woman?'" Westminster Review (1898)

Appendix D: Women and Paid Employment

1. Charlotte Brontë, from Shirley (1849)
2. From "The Disputed Question," English Woman's Journal (1858)
3. Evelyn March Phillips, from "The Working Lady in London," Fortnightly Review (1892)
4. Clara Collet, from "The Employment of Women," Report to the Royal Commission on Labour (1893)
5. Frances H. Low, from "How Poor Ladies Live," Nineteenth Century (1897)
6. Eliza Orme, from "How Poor Ladies Live: A Reply," Nineteenth Century (1897)

Appendix E: Conditions of Work for Men in the White-Collar Sector

1. James Fitzjames Stephen, from "Gentlemen" Cornhill Magazine (1862)
2. B.O. Orchard, from The Clerks of Liverpool (1871)
3. Charles Edward Parsons, from Clerks: their position and advancement (1876)
4. Thomas Sutherst, from Death and Disease Behind the Counter (1884)
5. H.G. Wells, from Kipps (1905)
6. H.G. Wells, from Experiment in Autobiography (1934)

Appendix F: Map of London (1892)

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