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The Emancipated

Author
George Gissing
Read by
Amara Wrenn
Language
English
Length
13 hours 58 minutes
ISBN
9781802566628
Published
1 June 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • George Gissing
  • life
  • travel
  • spiritual
  • Italy
  • Victorian
  • family
  • relationship
  • romance
  • norms

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Description

Miriam Baske, a young Puritan widow from Lancashire, goes to Italy with her brother and finds the old certainties loosening among painters, tourists, and talk of freedom. Gissing on marriage, personal liberty, and late-Victorian moral codes — duty against desire, gender and class under sharp observation. What it means to be emancipated when society still names the scandal. Psychological depth; Italy as the testing ground, not a false London barrister plot.

Author

George Gissing (1857–1903) was the most unflinching realist of late Victorian England — a novelist who wrote what others preferred not to see. In New Grub Street he exposed the bitter economics of literary life: talent ground down by poverty, compromise, and the market. The Nether World, Born in Exile, and The Odd Women extended that clear-eyed vision to slum existence, intellectual exile, and the precarious lives of unmarried women.

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