The Role of Women in Victorian England The evolving role of women in Victorian England is the main subject of George Gissing's The Odd Women. Gissing's novel deals with the struggle that many English women faced in the later part of the nineteenth century as they struggled for independence and finding means to support themselves. Prior to the women's equal rights movement, which began in the middle part of the 1800s, women were either expected …showed first 75 words of 1800 total…

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