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The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary CultureWomens Fiction from the 1920s to the 1940s\nAuthor(s): Emma Sterry\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783319408286, 978-3319408286\nSynopsis\nThis book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohemian roles, and traversed public and private spheres. In the modern era, the single woman was both celebrated and derided for refusing to conform to societal expectations regarding femininity and sexuality. The different versions of single women presented in cultural narratives of this periodincluding the old maid, odd woman, New Woman, spinster, and flapperwere all sexually suspicious. The single woman, however, was really an amorphous figure who defied straightforward categorization. Emma Sterry explores depictions of such single women in transatlantic wo.