The Odd Women By George Gissing

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🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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George Gissing's The Odd Women (1893) is the groundbreaking book featured in this episode of Backlisted. Joining John and Andy to discuss this fascinating, proto-feminist novel - and the incident-packed life of its prolific author - are novelist and biographer Janet Todd and the professor of Victorian literature at the University of Durham, Simon James. Also in this episode Andy has been reading The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping by Samantha Harvey; and John enjoys A Musical Offering, a suite of stories about music by the Argentine writer Luis Sagasti.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)8'31 - The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey15'48 A musical Offering by Luis Sagasti21'48 - The Odd Women By George Gissing* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:24.0	Jan, you're calling from Cambridge.
0:27.0	I already know this.
0:28.0	I am sitting at my husband's desk, which is extraordinarily uncomfortable.
0:33.0	And I'm surrounded by all sorts of machinery that I don't usually use,
0:37.0	including all this webcam and whatnot.
0:39.0	I have a much more respectable bookie sort of office, and I much prefer it.
0:45.0	I love the idea of a man, a manly desk, very gissing kind of.
0:49.0	Yes, it is actually the whole thing is.
0:52.0	I think men on the whole seem to like sort of big, backed black chairs.
0:58.0	I have noticed this.
0:59.0	It's not just in my own home.
1:01.0	Simon, so we've got somebody from Cambridge.
1:04.0	And we've got somebody from elsewhere in the country.
1:07.0	Where are you?
1:08.0	I'm a couple of miles south of Durham.
1:10.0	So just on the banks of the way, if you have to be locked down somewhere,
1:14.0	I can recommend being locked down in the Durham countryside.
1:17.0	Brilliant.
1:18.0	Are you affected by the northeast being put into lockdown?
1:22.0	I suppose you probably are.
1:24.0	It will be, but we're not going out.
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