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George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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George Gissing, the working woman, and urban culture.

Liggins, Emma.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2006

193 pages

$89.95

Hardcover

PR4717

Liggins (Manchester Metropolitan U.) compares representations of working women in British novelist Gissing's (1857-1903) fiction and in investigatory discourses such as government reports, periodical articles, and feminist pamphlets, in order to highlight narratives common to both about the freedoms and dangers facing the woman worker, and the value and possibilities of her labor.

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