The Odd Woman, Gail Godwin, 1974, United States, NOVEL
"...She considers characters and authors of nineteenth-century novels as friends and converses with them, wondering how they might react, what they might choose, how they might define Jane in their novels....Jane has thoughts that are "flying wildly abroad, knocking one another down, flinging themselves against impenetrable windows, barriers of other times, other places"—thoughts that demand her time and attention as she remembers Edith, talks with Kitty, confronts Gerta, and allows herself to be honest about Gabriel..."
"...She considers characters and authors of nineteenth-century novels as friends and converses with them, wondering how they might react, what they might choose, how they might define Jane in their novels....Jane has thoughts that are "flying wildly abroad, knocking one another down, flinging themselves against impenetrable windows, barriers of other times, other places"—thoughts that demand her time and attention as she remembers Edith, talks with Kitty, confronts Gerta, and allows herself to be honest about Gabriel..."
(H.S., p. 170)