The Odd Women by George Gissing ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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06/14/23

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860m

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The Odd Women by George Gissing audiobook.

Genre: drama

In late-Victorian London, a demographic imbalance leaves many middle-class women with few prospects for marriage and even fewer for financial security. The Madden sisters - practical Alice, gentle Virginia, and the youngest, Monica - are among the 'odd women,' trying to survive on meager incomes while society measures their worth by husbands and homes. Across the city, two determined reformers, Mary Barfoot and her brilliant, uncompromising colleague Rhoda Nunn, run a training school that prepares women for office work and argues for independence over matrimony. When the idealistic world of female self-sufficiency collides with the allure and pressure of conventional romance, Monica finds herself pulled between necessity, desire, and the fear of a life narrowing into dependence. Meanwhile, Rhoda's convictions are tested by an unexpected emotional challenge and by the question of whether freedom must mean solitude. George Gissing crafts a sharp, compassionate portrait of ambition, loneliness, and social constraint, exploring what it costs to seek autonomy in a culture built to deny it - and what it costs to accept the bargain of respectability.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:15:38) Chapter 02

(00:48:44) Chapter 03

(01:01:41) Chapter 04

(01:36:18) Chapter 05

(02:05:55) Chapter 06

(02:38:12) Chapter 07

(03:13:38) Chapter 08

(03:44:51) Chapter 09

(04:07:42) Chapter 10

(04:29:56) Chapter 11

(04:50:57) Chapter 12

(05:19:53) Chapter 13

(05:50:54) Chapter 14

(06:19:22) Chapter 15

(06:51:16) Chapter 16

(07:21:52) Chapter 17

(07:56:01) Chapter 18

(08:17:40) Chapter 19

(08:36:29) Chapter 20

(08:53:25) Chapter 21

(09:20:27) Chapter 22

(09:55:27) Chapter 23

(10:15:26) Chapter 24

(10:38:21) Chapter 25

(11:15:35) Chapter 26

(11:44:17) Chapter 27

(12:18:39) Chapter 28

(12:49:35) Chapter 29

(13:22:14) Chapter 30

(13:45:32) Chapter 31

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Genre: biography

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(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:04:52) Chapter 02

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(00:14:11) Chapter 04

(00:32:34) Chapter 05

(01:06:20) Chapter 06

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(03:34:33) Chapter 17

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Genre: poetry

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