"The Odd Women" and "The Girls"

The Odd Women

✍ George Gissing 📂 Fiction 📅 2009;2007 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 253 KB 👁 2 views

Virginia and Alice Madden are 'odd women', growing old alone in Victorian England with no prospect of finding love. Forced into poverty by the sudden death of their father, they lead lives of quiet desperation in a genteel boarding house in London. Meanwhile, their younger sister Monica struggles to

The Women and the Girls

✍ Laura Bloom 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Allen & Unwin 🌐 English ⚖ 472 KB

Laura Bloom has such a unique talent for modern historical fiction and this time it was a joy to be catapulted back to the 1970s. When I turned the last page I was so sad to say goodbye to her beautifully observed characters. A delight from start to finish!' Liane Moriarty _Three friends. Three ma

The Women and the Girls

✍ Laura Bloom 📂 Fiction 📅 2021 🏛 Allen & Unwin 🌐 English ⚖ 472 KB

Laura Bloom has such a unique talent for modern historical fiction and this time it was a joy to be catapulted back to the 1970s. When I turned the last page I was so sad to say goodbye to her beautifully observed characters. A delight from start to finish!' Liane Moriarty *Three friends. Three mar

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers

✍ Faderman, Lillian 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Lesbian life in America continues to evolve. As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this book, Faderman reclaims the story of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcu

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

✍ Simmons, Rachel 📂 Fiction 🏛 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 🌐 English ⚖ 305 KB

REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL ON CYBERBULLYING AND HELPING GIRLS HANDLE THE DANGERS OF LIFE ONLINE When Odd Girl Out was first published, it became an instant bestseller and ignited a long-overdue conversation about the hidden culture of female bullying. Today the dirty looks, taunting

Odd Girl Roar: the Good Life, #4

✍ Merren Tait 📂 Fiction 📅 2022 🏛 Merren Tait 🌐 English ⚖ 230 KB

**When I called the mayor a "cockwomble", it didn't go down well.** Jewel Bauer has always been the underdog in whatever situation she lands in, and unfortunately her 'act now, think later' approach to life – or, as she puts it, "being the biggest numpty this side of planet Spackbrain" – doesn't he