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The Woman Question and George Gissing

The Woman Question and George Gissing

Haydock, James

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1496971981
ISBN13: 9781496971982
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Mar 17 2015
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Even though his books never sold as well as those of more popular novelists, women in particular liked George Gissing's work and often wrote to him for advice. They could see he was keenly interested in the lives of women and the long struggle to improve their condition in a gender-restrictive society dominated by males. Though Gissing tried to champion the women's cause, he did not entirely succeed. Perhaps he was too close to the changes affecting women to understand their situation fully. Perhaps with individual women a tenacious idealism blurred his vision. Perhaps the facts of his life and experience prevented a balanced judgment. Yet if he could say at the end of his career that he knew nothing at all about women, it was not because he had failed to write about them or to make a thorough study of them. Gissing used the woman question of his day to create female characters as much alive now as when he first began to write.

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