George Gissing, 1857-1903
Biographical note
Novelist, born at Wakefield. In his novels he depicted the environment and struggles of the lower and lower middle classes with a somewhat pessimistic and depressing realism, although his last work, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, seemed to usher in the dawn of a somewhat brighter outlook. His other novels include Demos [1886], Thyrza [1887], The Nether World [1889], New Grub Street [1891], Born in Exile [1892], In the Year of Jubilee [1894], and The Town Traveller [1898]. He died at St. Jean de Luz in the Pyrenees.
[From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910]
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Works
New Grub Street [1890]
The Unclassed [1883]- A Life's Morning [1885]
- Demos [1886]
- Thyrza [1887]
- The Nether World [1888]
- The Emancipated [1889]
- Born In Exile [1891]
- The Odd Women [1892]
- In the Year of Jubilee [1894]
- The Town Traveller [1897]
- Denzil Quarrier [1891]
- Eve's Ransom [1894]
- The Paying Guest [1895]
- The Whirlpool [1896]
- The Crown Of Life [1899]
- By the Ionian Sea [1899]
- Our Friend the Charlatan [1899]
- The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft [1902]
- Will Warburton [1903]
- Veranilda (1903, unfinished)