George Gissing (Author of New Grub Street).
Dickens and George Eliot are his benchmarks in fiction, not Henry James or Thomas Hardy. His novels are conventional products of the late Victorian literary marketplace; a market which Gissing well understood and deplored, but which he could not afford to ignore. His earlier novels are nearly all too long, to fit the exigencies of the.George Robert Gissing was an English novelist who published twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. From his early naturalistic works, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era.In The Year Of The Jubilee is a novel by George Gissing written in 1894. The title refers to the Golden Jubilee in 1887, marking Queen Victorias 50th year on the throne. It has been said that this novel was written in Gissings best, strongest period.
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. This institution prepared students for university and Gissing proved to be a star pupil.George Gissing (1857 - 1903) was an English novelist and teacher who wrote an average of a novel a year between 1880-1903, twenty three in all. His best known works include The Nether World (1889) and The Odd Women (1893). He also published numerous short story collections.
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