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- George Gissing (born November 22, 1857, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England—died December 28, 1903, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) was an English novelist, an unswerving realist whose primary subjects were people of lower birth.
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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 shop, and Margaret (née Bedford). His siblings were: William, who died aged twenty; Algernon , who became a writer; Margaret; and Ellen. [1]
George Gissing (born November 22, 1857, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England—died December 28, 1903, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) was an English novelist, an unswerving realist whose primary subjects were people of lower birth.
The late Victorian novelist, George Gissing, was born in Wakefield in 1857. His childhood was spent in the Wakefield. His father, Thomas Gissing, a chemist, had a shop where the Nat West Bank is today at the top of Westgate, and the family lived in Thompson’s Yard.
George Gissing (born November 22, 1857, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England—died December 28, 1903, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) was an English novelist, noted for the unflinching realism of his novels about the lower middle class. Gissing was educated at Owens College, Manchester, where his academic career was brilliant until he was expelled (and ...
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George Gissing was born at Wakefield, Yorkshire on 22 November 1857, the son of a chemist who died young leaving five children in fairly straitened circumstances. He was a brilliant student who at the age of 15 won a scholarship to Owens College, Manchester.
Gissing’s Born in Exile was drafted in the first six months of 1891 and published in 1892; Gissing had recently remarried, achieved some success with New Grub Street and moved from London to Exeter. 1 The novel has been discussed most frequently either as autobiographical or in relation to the conflict between science and religion prompted ...
Born in Exile at 125 (Tom Ue) George Gissing’s “nomadic thought” and the Vibrant Experience of By the Ionian Sea (Emanuela Ettorre) Baron Corvo, the Socialist Politician, and the “Mysterious” Third Man: A Chronicle of 1893 and 1894 (Markus Neacey) George Gissing’s The Town Traveller: A Comedy, By Jorrocks!
