The book under discussion is The Odd Women by George Gissing, first published in three volumes by Lawrence & Bullen in 1893, and along with New Grub Streetand Demos , accounted by Gissing himself as one of his three best books. Simon's PhD was mostly on George Gissing. He regularly contributes to the Durham Book Festival was the Principal Investigator on the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education for Arts Council England. Wells, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Victorian bestsellers Trilby and The Sorrows of Satan. The second guest is Simon James, Professor of Victorian Literature at the Department of English Studies, Durham University. Her most recent novel, published by the Fentum Press earlier in 2020, is Don't You Know There's a War On? In 2018, Fentum also published her memoir Radiation Diaries, described by Hilary Mantel as ‘frank, wry and unexpectedly heartening’. She has published books on Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Samuel Richardson and Aphra Behn. For this episode, John and Andy are joined by the novelist and scholar Janet Todd, known especially for her biographies and editions of early women writers.
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