SaraStarted Gissing’s The Odd Women. So far the misery is kept in check. How long till it gets really agonizing? #GeorgeGissing
I’m a bit past a wedding scene in The Odd Women, where “Depression was manifest on every countenance,” and the bride and her sister spend the hour before the ceremony weeping. #GeorgeGissing #DepressingBooks
Nothing in the totally horrible and doomed marriage of Monica and Edmund Widdowson that a few sessions with a marriage counselor couldn’t fix. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #VictorianLiterature #gissing