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GISSING, GEORGE ROBERT (18J7-1903)

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GISSING, See also:GEORGE See also:ROBERT (18J7-1903) , See also:English novelist, was See also:born at See also:Wakefield on the 22nd of See also:November 1857. He was educated at the Quaker boarding-school of Alderley Edge and at See also:Owens See also:College, See also:Manchester. His See also:life, especially its earlier See also:period, was spent in See also:great poverty, mainly in See also:London, though he was for a See also:time also in the See also:United States, supporting him-self chiefly by private teaching. He published his first novel, Workers in the See also:Dawn, in 1880. The Unclassed (1884) and See also:Isabel See also:Clarendon (1886) followed. Demos (1886), a novel dealing with. socialistic ideas, was, however, the first to attract See also:attention. It was followed by a See also:series of novels remarkable for their pictures of See also:lower See also:middle class life. Gissing's own experiences had pre-occupied him with poverty and its brutalizing effects on See also:character. He made no See also:attempt at popular See also:writing, and for a See also:long time the sincerity of his See also:work was appreciated only by a limited public. Among his more characteristic novels were: Thyrza (1887), A Life's See also:Morning (1888), The Nether See also:World (1889), New See also:Grub See also:Street (1891), Born in See also:Exile (1892j, The See also:Odd See also:Women (1893), In the See also:Year of See also:Jubilee (1894), The Whirlpool (1897). Others, e.g. The See also:Town Traveller (1901), indicate a humorous See also:faculty, but the prevailing See also:note of his novels is that of the struggling life of the shabby-genteel and lower classes and the conflict between See also:education and circumstances.

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Henry Ryecroft (1903) reflects throughout Gissing's studious and retiring tastes. He was a See also:good classical See also:scholar and had a See also:minute acquaintance with the See also:late Latin historians, and with See also:Italian antiquities; and his See also:posthumous Veranilda (1904), a See also:historical See also:romance of See also:Italy in the time of See also:Theodoric the Goth, was the outcome of his favourite studies. Gissing's See also:powers as a See also:literary critic are shown in his admirable study on See also:Charles See also:Dickens (1898). A See also:book of travel, By the Ionian See also:Sea, appeared in Igor. He died at St See also:Jean de Luz in the See also:Pyrenees on the 28th of See also:December 1903. See also the See also:introductory See also:essay by T. Seccombe to The See also:House of Cobwebs (1906), a posthumous See also:volume of Gissing's See also:short stories.

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