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	George Gissing: An Introduction
		Gissing's fiction is broadly naturalistic and anti-romantic in flavour and exclusively urban in setting.
		Gissing was no experimenter in fictional technique, and he certainly wasn't interested in testing the boundaries of toleration.
		Gissing expended much effort on his style, and with time it became extremely distinctive: a melancholy, ruminative, confiding style, rising often to a high note of indignation or exaltation, full of the most acute, if occasionally laboured, psychological analysis, varied by excellent lively dialogue and shot through by flashes of dark, mordant, saturnine humour.
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	§13. Gissing. XIV. George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The ...
		George Robert Gissing was born at Wakefield on 22 November, 1857; at school, and at Owens college, Manchester, he worked with a furious energy, and seemed destined for a notable career in the academic world.
		The evidence is a little contradictory; but it seems that by the year 1882 Gissing had emerged from the bitterest of the miseries due to poverty.
		Gissing died at the age of forty-six at St. Jean de Luz on 28 December, 1903.
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	George Gissing: Biographical sketch
		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.
		Nell Gissing died, of drink and (probably) venereal disease, early in 1888; the account in his diary of being called to identify her body in a room in a Lambeth slum is one of Gissing's most moving passages.
		Gissing died in a rented villa at Ispoure near St Jean Pied de Port in south-west France on 28 December 1903, and is buried in the English cemetery at St Jean de Luz on the Bay of Biscay.
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	George Gissing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Gissing (November 22, 1857 – December 28, 1903) was a British novelist.
		With little money to spare, Gissing engaged in theft, stealing from other students in order to support her.
		In 1876, he was caught, convicted of theft, and forced to leave the university; he spent a short time in prison.
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	Clara Collet and George Gissing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gissing, determined to keep her from the streets, was forced to steal from his fellow students in order to pay for Nell's gin.
		For when Gissing was forced to leave his second wife due to her constant abuse of her husband, Collet appears to have hoped for something more out of her relationship with Gissing.
		It is unlikely that Collet would have moved in with Gissing as this would have most likely proved very damaging to her career, and as marriage was not an option for Gissing would never have contemplated divorce a close friendship would be the only option open to them.
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	Waggish: New Grub Street, George Gissing
		Gissing is so relentlessly materalistic in his focus that the writer's life looks inconceivably horrible by the end of the book: his characters exercise their meager talents towards prostitution or invisibility.
		Gissing is similarly impersonal in discussing the rationales his characters give for writing, and the effect is savage, even when Gissing pleads for compassion.
		Gissing's strategies to maintain the balance between soaring, useless artistic success and hard social realism are at least as fascinating as the gloomy pronouncements on the London writing scene and the literary tastes of the plebes.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Gissing, George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George Robert Gissing, one of the finest English novelists of the later nineteenth century, was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1857, the eldest of five children.
		Gissing was appalled by Edith's treatment of Walter, complaining of her “slappings and railings” and her poisonous influence on his mind.
		Gissing's burst of creative energy continued with two contrasting novels dealing with the themes of marriage, free union and the relations between the sexes.
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	The George Gissing Website
		Gissing's present reputation is that he is in the upper second division of late Victorian writers.
		George Gissing's The Unclassed and the perils of naturalism" first appeared in ELH in 1992.
		George Gissing's Thyrza: Romantic love and ideological co-conspiracy," first appeared in the Gissing Journal in 1994.
	ehlt.flinders.edu.au /english/Gissing/Gissing_HomePage.htm (603 words)

	Portraits in Charcoal: George Gissing's Women (summary)
		Gissing met this passionate frenchwoman in the summer of 1898, fell madly in love with her (and she with him), and married her (though still legally married to Edith) in May of 1899 in Rouen.
		Several biographies of Gissing are now in print, but no biography adequately demonstrates the close connection between the real women in his life and the fictional women in his imagination.
		Gissing was a handsome man, as the sketch on the cover illustrates, but on close examination you will find a few warts that cannot be ignored.
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	George Gissing
		George Gissing was born at Wakefield, Yorkshire on 22 November 1857.
		Gissing's marriage was desperately unhappy: his wife was a drunkard and intermittently returned to prostitution; eventually he paid her to live apart from him.
		Nell Gissing died, of drink and syphilis, early in 1888; the account in his diary of being called to identify her body in a room in a Lambeth slum is one of Gissing's most moving passages.
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	GEORGE ROBERT GISSING - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE ROBERT GISSING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Town Traveller (1901), indicate a humorous faculty, but the prevailing note of his novels is that of the struggling life of the shabby-genteel and lower classes and the conflict between education and circumstances.
		He was a good classical scholar and had a minute acquaintance with the late Latin historians, and with Italian antiquities; and his posthumous Veranilda (1904), a historical romance of Italy in the time of Theodoric the Goth, was the outcome of his favorite studies.
		Gissings powers as a literary critic are shown in.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GI/GISSING_GEORGE_ROBERT.htm (355 words)

	Paul Delany, Introduction to In the Year ofJubilee
		Gissing was a snob too, yet he was deeply impressed by the sight of a new class in the making: the metropolitan lower middle class.
		Gissing had been born into the provincial lower middle class (his father was a manufacturing chemist), and his income from writing of about two to four hundred pounds a year kept him at that social level.
		Gissing made himself our first really modern novelist by seizing on the emergent mass culture that would dominate the twentieth century; yet his portrayal of that culture is driven by hate, and by the conviction that any sensitive person can only survive by fleeing it.
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		However, for Gissing (at least at this point), this is a proudly chosen position: characters "refuse the statistic badge." One is reminded of Gissing's emphasis throughout his novels on the spirit of rebellion that characterizes his heroes.
		Gissing legitimizes her aesthetic impulses in the first edition by drawing an analogy between her response to the music of a distant organ and Wordsworth's to the music of humanity in "Tintern Abbey" (2:161-62).
		Gissing is too much of a pragmatist, however, to embrace the impersonal beauty of art or the perfected structure of the work of art as an alternate ground of meaning.
	ehlt.flinders.edu.au /english/Gissing/HarshELH.htm (11363 words)

	A George Gissing Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gissing moved to 17 Oakley Crescent, Chelsea, where he lived two years.
		Gissing lived alone, worked on next novel, tried and failed to get a divorce, never saw Nell again until after she was dead.
		By the end of year, as he finished his latest novel, Gissing's troubles with Edith had convinced him he would have to abandon his family.
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	Encyclopedia: George Gissing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A promising student, he fared well at Owens College, but his tenure as a student was affected when he fell in love with a local prostitute, Marianne Harrison.
		New Grub Street is a novel by George Gissing published in 1891.
		Will Warburton, George Gissings last novel, was published in 1905, three years after Gissings death.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Gissing (1022 words)

	Portraits in Charcoal: George Gissing's Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Half biography and half critical study, this book about George Gissing (1857-1903) is for the general reader.
		It draws a parallel between the women in Gissing's life and the women in his novels.
		Gissing's feminine portraiture, rendered in shades of somber experience, is one of the most striking features of his work and one of the most valuable for the reader of today.
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	XIV. George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing: Bibliography. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge ...
		George Meredith, poeta: Fiona Macleod.… Studi letterari, etc. 1913.
		Fehr, B. George Meredith: Der Dichter der Evolution.
		Photiades, C. George Meredith, sa vie—son imagination—son art—sa doctrine.
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	George Gissing in Prison
		Gissing's arrest and imprisonment in 1876 was probably the most important event of his life.
		Gissing was the second prisoner of forty-three (twenty-five male, eighteen female) who entered Bellevue on the 6th of June.
		1 "George Gissing a Manchester," Etudes Anglaises, July-September 1963, pp.
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		George Gissing's Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, a rather neglected late work of this underestimated Victorian writer, can be seen as a rare instance in this process of gradually transforming realist modes of writing in the last decade of the nineteenth century.
		Gissing's Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft and In the Year of Jubilee, like many other narratives of the period,3 make constant references to themselves as somehow participating in England's political and economic expansion, and therefore create a mood that supports and consolidates the practice of empire, though often in an oblique and indirect fashion.
		To a certain degree, Gissing is willing to criticise established authorities on the grounds of their failure to reform but at the same time he depends for his critique on the existing institutions of bourgeois society.
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	COLLECTION OF THE WORKS OF GEORGE GISSING
		Items 167-171 are autograph letters by Gissing (49 letters in all), from which substantial quotation is made in the catalogue descriptions.
		The main feature of the sale being a "splendid series of autograph letters signed by George Gissing." 15 letters listed, all written to Gissing's brother and discussing at length his literary work, the break-up of his first marriage, etc. The descriptions include extensive quotation from each letter.
		Sale included Gissing's personal diary, 1887-1902, illustrated with his drawings (one page reproduced and lengthy quotations given); and a series of letters to his brother (some passages quoted).
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	GEORGE GISSING (1857-1903): The Gissing Trust
		The Trust publishes The Gissing Journal, a quarterly publication devoted to the life and work of George Gissing.
		Gissing's novels are a protest against the form of self-torture that goes by the name of respectability.
		Gissing was a bookish, over-civilised man, in love with classical antiquity, who found himself trapped in a cold, smoky, Protestant country where it was impossible to be comfortable without a thick padding of money between yourself and the outer world.
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	George Gissing -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George Gissing (November 22, 1857 - December 28, 1903) was a British (Someone who writes novels) novelist.
		Although (A person who lived during the reign of Victoria) Victorian in chronological terms, his work marked a trend towards the cynicism of the (Click link for more info and facts about 20th century) 20th century novel.
		In 1876, he was caught and convicted of (The act of taking something from someone unlawfully) theft and forced to leave the university; he spent a short time in prison.
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	Gissing, George -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The English novelist George Gissing was noted for the unflinching realism of his novels about the lower middle class.
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	Amazon.com: Books: The Odd Women (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		George Gissing's The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of 'odd' or 'redundant' women, the cultural impact of 'the new woman,' and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy.
		Gissing shows the men in this tale to be completely as in need of women (and desirous of companionship with them) as the women are of men.
		Gissing's book is a serious and sympathetic treatment of the much-discussed "woman question," and written from a point of view somewhat in advance of his time.
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	Gissing, George on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gissing was the foremost English exponent of naturalism often focusing on social issues—poverty, the exploitation of women, the effects of industrialization.
		"All she knew was, that she wished to live": late-Victorian realism, liberal-feminist ideals, and George Gissing's In the Year of the Jubilee.(Critical Essay)
		Gissing's 'In the Year of Jubilee' and the epistemology of resistance.
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	Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing (Anthem Nineteenth Century Studies): Current ...
		Gissing's best-known novels, such as "The Odd Women" and his celebrated novel of literary life "New Grub Street", expose the competitive individualism of Victorian society.
		This study also examines the range of Gissing's preoccupations, from the condition of the working class, to the making of sexual difference, to the comodification of art, and demonstrates why Gissing's dissident but accurate representations of the emergent modernity of late nineteenth-century urban culture deserve a unique place in English literary history.
		His work includes critical writings on George Gissing, HG Wells and Charles Dickens; he has also written on masculinity and on contemporary fiction.
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	IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
		There are a few definite errors of fact in Roberts¹ account (the details of the death of Nell Gissing, for instance), but they are trivial and due, probably, to a failure of memory rather than any wish to conceal information.
		His judgement, several times repeated, that Gissing should never have become a novelist, and that if he had had fifty pounds a year he would have written nothing but would have lived in a cottage and 'asphyxiated himself with books' is not likely to find much favour today.
		However, Roberts knew Gissing intimately, particularly in his early days, and the biography is invaluable as the source of some of the best-known anecdotes about his friend¹s attitudes and behaviour."
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