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...
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Cotter Morison, Leslie Stephen, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Gissing and J. M. Barrie. Gissing wrote in a letter to his brother Algernon that Meredith's...
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English writer George Gissing (1857–1903), English novelist Harry Gissing (1890–1963), American track and field athlete Jason Gissing (born 1970), British...
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in the library on the date of the last entry: Dan Leno, Karl Marx, George Gissing and John Cree. Kildare acquires handwriting samples of the other three...
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heart disease. Gissing was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire. His parents were Thomas Waller Gissing (1829–1870) and Margaret Gissing (1832–1913)...
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justify them. Other writers Orwell admired included Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark...
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New Grub Street (category Novels by George Gissing)
New Grub Street is a British novel by George Gissing published in 1891, which is set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London. The story...
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and newspapers, a matter of supreme importance to Gissing. In September 1890 Morley Roberts, Gissing and Hudson went to Shoreham and were involved in rescuing...
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Sea, a 1901 travel narrative in southern Italy by Victorian writer George Gissing. He further states that either Fellini or Flaiano opened the book at...
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(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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The Odd Women (category Novels by George Gissing)
The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist...
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no suicides or tragic deaths. The late nineteenth century novelist George Gissing, who knew Hardy, considered it "surely old Hardy's poorest book". Ethelberta...
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University Press. p. 820. Letters of George Gissing to members of his family, collected and arranged by Algernon and Ellen Gissing. London: Constable, 1927, letter...
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consistent" and "more natural" but noted the new ending's popularity. George Gissing called that revision "a strange thing, indeed, to befall Dickens" and...
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May 2012. Keary, C. F. (1904). "George Gissing," The Athenaeum, Vol. XVI, p. 82. Bader, A.L. (1963). "New Looks at Gissing". Review. The Antioch Review....
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1 December 2012 Letters of George Gissing to Members of his family, collected and arranged by Algernon and Ellen Gissing. London: Constable, 1927, letter...
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novelist George Gissing who provides a colourful and insightful account of his stays with Shortridge in his Published Letters of George Gissing. In the...
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the rest of his life. The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing thought that his novella Si Muore, read by him in January 1890, was...
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Runelords novel series by David Farland The Nether World, an 1889 novel by George Gissing Netherworld (Marvel Comics), in the Marvel Comics universe, a city ruled...
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English novelist George Gissing noted in his diary in November 1898 that the novel had been "extravagantly praised", but that Gissing thought it showed...
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novel), a 1986 novel by Jane Urquhart The Whirlpool (George Gissing novel), an 1897 novel by George Gissing Whirlpool (1934 film), a 1934 American drama film...
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2008. Gissing, George (1978). Coustillas, Pierre (ed.). London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian London: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist...
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the last half century". The late nineteenth century English author George Gissing read the novel in March 1888 "with much delight" but felt that the "human...
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and theme already substantially worked out. According to the novelist George Gissing, Dombey was begun at Lausanne, continued at Paris, completed in London...
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values. Other critics include the late 19th century English novelist George Gissing, who read the book whilst staying in Rome in March 1898 and wrote in...
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clings to childish fantasy, with an unhappy ending. The English novelist George Gissing read the former in November 1896 and wrote that he "thoroughly dislike[d...
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1873 by Henrik Ibsen. The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing read an English translation of Julian's work in 1891 Julian's life and...
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have influenced Thomas Mann, as well as the Englishmen George Gissing and D. H. Lawrence. Gissing read the Reclam edition of Niels Lyhne in 1889 and again...
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The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels, and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–1950), either...
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of Kingdom Come Mary E. Wilkins Freeman – The Wind in the Rose Bush George Gissing – The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Henry James – The Ambassadors...
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