The Essay: 'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females

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The Essay: 'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females: The Divorcee

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'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, 'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females, The Divorcee

Journalist and author Rachel Cooke examines the phenomenon of the single woman.

In the third of her essays, Rachel Cooke considers the divorcee.

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.

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