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The Essay

'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females

The Divorcee

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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In the third episode of her essays about the single woman, Rachel Cooke considers the divorcee - once seen as a dangerous and predatory figure out to steal husbands. She charts the depiction of faithless wives in fiction, from the Victorian sensation novel East Lynne to Nora Ephron's 1980s classic Heartburn. Show less

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