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George Robert Gissing (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ s ɪ ŋ /; 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.
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.
The most exclusive and the most unattainable world is that of the past, and Gissing’s nostalgia was for the ancient world, for the wine and olives and grass fragrant in the sun, as far as possible from the cold, squalor, smoke, and filth of urban England.
Jul 3, 2015 · The reputation of George Gissing as a great Victorian novelist seemed dead and buried. Enter a champion, with a vigorous new life, writes Anthony Quinn
Sep 9, 2011 · The reputation of George Gissing as a great Victorian novelist seemed dead and buried. Enter a champion, with a vigorous new life… Anthony Quinn. Fri 9 Sep 2011 07.15 EDT.
Jun 8, 2018 · George Robert Gissing was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in 1857. A brilliant classics student, he seemed destined for an academic career but his prospects were ruined when, at the age of eighteen, he was imprisoned for stealing money to support a young prostitute whom he later married.
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.
