English novelist, short story writer and literary critic (1857–1903)
George Gissing
Born
George Robert Gissing (1857-11-22)22 November 1857 Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK
Died
28 December 1903(1903-12-28) (aged 46) Ispoure, Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France
Literary movement
Naturalism
Notable works
The Nether World (1889) New Grub Street (1891) Born In Exile (1892) The Odd Women (1893)
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George Robert Gissing (/ˈɡɪsɪŋ/; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. In the 1890s he was considered one of the three greatest novelists in England, and by the 1940s he had been recognised as a literary genius. Gissing's best-known works have reappeared in modern editions. They include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893). He retains a small but devoted group of followers.
of followers. Gissing was born on 22 November 1857 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, the eldest of five children of Thomas Waller Gissing, who ran a chemist's...
Cotter Morison, Leslie Stephen, Robert Louis Stevenson, GeorgeGissing and J. M. Barrie. Gissing wrote in a letter to his brother Algernon that Meredith's...
New Grub Street is a British novel by GeorgeGissing published in 1891, which is set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London. The story...
(1893). Algernon Fred Gissing (1860–1937) was an English novelist and the younger brother of George Robert Gissing. Alfred Charles Gissing (20 January 1896...
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justify them. Other writers Orwell admired included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, GeorgeGissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark...
in the library on the date of the last entry: Dan Leno, Karl Marx, GeorgeGissing and John Cree. Kildare acquires handwriting samples of the other three...
Sea, a 1901 travel narrative in southern Italy by Victorian writer GeorgeGissing. He further states that either Fellini or Flaiano opened the book at...
novelist GeorgeGissing who provides a colourful and insightful account of his stays with Shortridge in his Published Letters of GeorgeGissing. In the...
July 1900. Hudson was a friend of the late-19th century English author GeorgeGissing, whom he met in 1889. They corresponded until the latter's death in...
May 2012. Keary, C. F. (1904). "GeorgeGissing," The Athenaeum, Vol. XVI, p. 82. Bader, A.L. (1963). "New Looks at Gissing". Review. The Antioch Review....
consistent" and "more natural" but noted the new ending's popularity. GeorgeGissing called that revision "a strange thing, indeed, to befall Dickens" and...
no suicides or tragic deaths. The late nineteenth century novelist GeorgeGissing, who knew Hardy, considered it "surely old Hardy's poorest book". Ethelberta...
heart disease. Gissing was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire. His parents were Thomas Waller Gissing (1829–1870) and Margaret Gissing (1832–1913)...
University Press. p. 820. Letters of GeorgeGissing to members of his family, collected and arranged by Algernon and Ellen Gissing. London: Constable, 1927, letter...
Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of GeorgeGissing ed. Alfred C. Gissing (London & New York, 1929) Review of Diary with excerpts...
The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist GeorgeGissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist...
the last half century". The late nineteenth century English author GeorgeGissing read the novel in March 1888 "with much delight" but felt that the "human...
1 December 2012 Letters of GeorgeGissing to Members of his family, collected and arranged by Algernon and Ellen Gissing. London: Constable, 1927, letter...
The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels, and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–1950), either...
Other critics include the late nineteenth century English novelist GeorgeGissing, who read the book whilst staying in Rome in March 1898, wrote in his...
the East End of London. The late nineteenth century English novelist GeorgeGissing, who read the novel on Christmas Day 1896, felt that it was "poor stuff"...
novelists of this era were Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), George Meredith (1828–1909), and GeorgeGissing (1857–1903). Robert Browning (1812–1889) and Alfred...
Runelords novel series by David Farland The Nether World, an 1889 novel by GeorgeGissing Netherworld (Marvel Comics), in the Marvel Comics universe, a city ruled...
2008. Gissing, George (1978). Coustillas, Pierre (ed.). London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian London: the Diary of GeorgeGissing, Novelist...
Romania Demos (film), a 1921 silent film Demos (novel), an 1886 novel by GeorgeGissing Demos Journal, an Australian literary and political journal Demos, 1982-86...
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