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    of followers. 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...
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    Cotter Morison, Leslie Stephen, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Gissing and J. M. Barrie. Gissing wrote in a letter to his brother Algernon that Meredith's...
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  • English writer George Gissing (1857–1903), English novelist Harry Gissing (1890–1963), American track and field athlete Jason Gissing (born 1970), British...
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  • New Grub Street (category Novels by George Gissing)
    New Grub Street is a British novel by George Gissing published in 1891, which is set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London. The story...
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    justify them. Other writers Orwell admired included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark...
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  • (1893). Algernon Fred Gissing (1860–1937) was an English novelist and the younger brother of George Robert Gissing. Alfred Charles Gissing (20 January 1896...
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    July 1900. Hudson was a friend of the late-19th century English author George Gissing, whom he met in 1889. They corresponded until the latter's death in...
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  • May 2012. Keary, C. F. (1904). "George Gissing," The Athenaeum, Vol. XVI, p. 82. Bader, A.L. (1963). "New Looks at Gissing". Review. The Antioch Review....
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  • in the library on the date of the last entry: Dan Leno, Karl Marx, George Gissing and John Cree. Kildare acquires handwriting samples of the other three...
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    novelist George Gissing who provides a colourful and insightful account of his stays with Shortridge in his Published Letters of George Gissing. In the...
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