Unmarried women

Descrição
Fictional stories featuring women who choose to live without romantic/sexual relationships, or who at least grow into this role if it is not voluntary.
1
The Old Wives' Tale
de Arnold Bennett
1,553 membros
25 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
Dilara86, bluepiano, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
bluepiano: One of the two protagonists was married for a bit before starting a successful business, remaining (iirc) single till death. Victorian but excellent.
2
Gone-Away Lake
de Elizabeth Enright
2,508 membros
32 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
spiphany, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
spiphany: Children meet two elderly siblings (a bachelor and a widow) who are the only inhabitants of an abandoned vacation community.
3
Anne of Green Gables
de L. M. Montgomery
29,313 membros
557 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Anne herself is an incurable romantic, but she is adopted and raised by a middle-aged brother and sister pair.
4
The Clan of the Cave Bear
de Jean M. Auel
12,741 membros
286 resenhas
3.9
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Ayla is raised by a medicine woman whose husband was killed and her brother, a shaman.
5
Lirael
de Garth Nix
7,299 membros
140 resenhas
4.2
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: No love interest here (although I gather the author adds one in one of the sequels)
6
Housekeeping
de Marilynne Robinson
6,356 membros
213 resenhas
3.9
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: A single woman looks after her orphaned nieces
7
The Murder at the Vicarage
de Agatha Christie
6,158 membros
191 resenhas
3.8
Member
spiphany
8
Jo's Boys
de Louisa May Alcott
4,907 membros
34 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Nan chooses her career as a doctor over marriage.
9
Eight Cousins
de Louisa May Alcott
4,560 membros
56 resenhas
3.9
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Features two maiden great-aunts and one widowed one (plus a decidedly bachelor uncle).
10
Cranford
de Elizabeth Gaskell
4,528 membros
131 resenhas
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
11
The Bone People
de Keri Hulme
3,817 membros
112 resenhas
4.1
Member
spiphany
12
Ballet Shoes
de Noel Streatfeild
3,487 membros
71 resenhas
4.2
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Three adopted girls are raised by an unmarried woman and her childhood nanny. Other unmarried female mentors abound: two retired professors who board in the house; the head of the dance academy.
13
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
de Olga Tokarczuk
2,742 membros
139 resenhas
3.9
Member
spiphany
14
The Forsyte Saga
de John Galsworthy
2,517 membros
41 resenhas
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
ManWithAnAgenda: Ann, Julia, Hester
15
The Small House at Allington
de Anthony Trollope
1,780 membros
49 resenhas
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
16
Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman
de Sylvia Townsend Warner
1,527 membros
69 resenhas
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
17
In This House of Brede
de Rumer Godden
1,417 membros
33 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Woman leaves her career and worldly life behind to become a nun.
18
An Unnecessary Woman
de Rabih Alameddine
1,249 membros
84 resenhas
4
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: After a brief arranged marriage, narrator lives alone and keeps busy by doing translations.
19
The Country of the Pointed Firs
de Sarah Orne Jewett
935 membros
23 resenhas
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
20
Die hellen Tage
de Zsuzsa Bánk
157 membros
8 resenhas
3.9
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: The three child protagonists are all essentially raised by single mothers (widowed, divorced, or with a father who is present only a few weeks a year)
21
Flight of Ashes
de Monika Maron
81 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Protagonist is a single mother; the plot focuses on her career rather than relationships.
22
Fountainville
de Tishani Doshi
14 membros
Member
spiphany
23
Wake Me When I'm Gone
de Odafe Atogun
10 membros
1 resenha
3
Member
spiphany
24
Die Witwen: Ein Abenteuerroman
de Dagmar Leupold
4 membros
Member
spiphany
25
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
de Muriel Barbery
11,848 membros
654 resenhas
3.8
26
O Pioneers!
de Willa Cather
6,336 membros
164 resenhas
3.9
27
The Golden Notebook
de Doris Lessing
5,378 membros
93 resenhas
½ 3.6
28
Pope Joan
de Donna Woolfolk Cross
3,824 membros
122 resenhas
3.9
29
Home
de Marilynne Robinson
3,792 membros
149 resenhas
4
30
Remarkable Creatures
de Tracy Chevalier
3,224 membros
226 resenhas
3.9
31
The Oathbound
de Mercedes Lackey
2,740 membros
20 resenhas
3.9
32
Excellent Women
de Barbara Pym
2,731 membros
125 resenhas
4
33
Cocaine Blues
de Kerry Greenwood
1,783 membros
130 resenhas
½ 3.7
34
Clariel
de Garth Nix
1,647 membros
59 resenhas
3.8
35
The Observations
de Jane Harris
1,471 membros
74 resenhas
½ 3.7
36
Nora Webster
de Colm Tóibín
1,470 membros
71 resenhas
3.9
37
The Outlander
de Gil Adamson
1,386 membros
89 resenhas
3.8
38
I, Elizabeth
de Rosalind Miles
1,313 membros
26 resenhas
½ 3.7
39
The Weight of Ink
de Rachel Kadish
1,253 membros
57 resenhas
4.1
40
Miss Garnet's Angel
de Salley Vickers
1,224 membros
33 resenhas
½ 3.6
41
All Passion Spent
de Vita Sackville-West
1,184 membros
56 resenhas
4
42
The Odd Women
de George Gissing
1,051 membros
20 resenhas
3.9
43
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
de Brian Moore
817 membros
27 resenhas
4
44
Gillespie and I
de Jane Harris
733 membros
72 resenhas
4
45
Clear Light of Day
de Anita Desai
720 membros
22 resenhas
½ 3.6
46
High Rising
de Angela Thirkell
681 membros
42 resenhas
3.8
47
Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather
de Jincy Willett
575 membros
19 resenhas
3.2
48
The Widow's War
de Sally Gunning
572 membros
27 resenhas
4
49
A Moment of Silence
de Anna Dean
411 membros
30 resenhas
½ 3.7
50
Wild Life
de Molly Gloss
392 membros
19 resenhas
½ 3.7
51
Annie Dunne
de Sebastian Barry
380 membros
23 resenhas
3.9
52
The Life and Death of Harriet Frean
de May Sinclair
379 membros
12 resenhas
½ 3.5
53
India Black
de Carol K. Carr
363 membros
38 resenhas
½ 3.5
54
The Jump-Off Creek
de Molly Gloss
348 membros
16 resenhas
4
55
Spiderweb
de Penelope Lively
334 membros
13 resenhas
½ 3.4
56
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
de Dorthe Nors
277 membros
13 resenhas
½ 3.4
57
The Magnificent Spinster
de May Sarton
255 membros
2 resenhas
3.8
58
Concluding
de Henry Green
212 membros
7 resenhas
3.9
59
Quicksilver
de R. J. Anderson
183 membros
16 resenhas
3.9
60
Superfluous Women
de Carola Dunn
167 membros
5 resenhas
3.8
61
The Old Maid
de Edith Wharton
154 membros
7 resenhas
4.1
62
A Five Year Sentence
de Bernice Rubens
149 membros
10 resenhas
4
63
Miss Webster and Cherif
de Patricia Duncker
104 membros
4 resenhas
3.8
64
The Moon Pearl (Bluestreak)
de Ruthanne Lum McCunn
90 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.7
65
The Maiden Dinosaur
de Janet McNeill
19 membros
3 resenhas
3.8