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George Robert Gissing

Male : Novelist whose work deals with the degrading effects of poverty. Convicted and imprisoned for petty theft. friends sent him to America where he enedd up destitute in Chicago. Married Marianne Harrison in 1879 and then Alice Underwood in 1891. He separated from them both. Moved to France with Gabrielle Fleury in 1898 and he died of pneumonia in the south of France
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Wakefield, Yorkshire

Date of Birth : 1857 Date of Death : 1903 Age : 46

Education : Owens College, Manchester (now the Univ of Manchester) but expelled for theft
1880-1890
Workers in the Dawn
(1880 Remington) - 3 vols (1935 NY see below)
The Unclassed
(1884 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols (1895 Lawrence & Bullen. 2nd Ed. 1 vol)
(1896 R F Fenno, NY)
Isabel Clarendon
(1886 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
Demos : A Story of English Socialism
(1886 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £400
Demos : A Story of English Socialism
(1886 Tauchnitz) - 2 vols
Thyrza
(1887 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
A Life's Morning
(1888 Smith Elder) - 3 vols (1888 Lippincott)
The Nether World
(1889 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £850
(1889 Smith Elder - single vol)
The Emancipated : A Novel
(1890 Bentley) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £850

1891-1895
New Grub Street
(1891 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
New Grub Street
(1891 Tauchnitz) - 2 vols in 1
Born in Exile
(1892 A & C Black, Edinburgh) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £380
(1892 Black - 3 vols in 1)
Denzil Quarrier
(1892 Lawrence & Bullen)
Offered in 1999 for £300
(1892 Macmillan NY)
The Odd Women
(1893 Lawrence & Bullen) - 3 vols (1893 Macmillan NY)
In the Year of Jubilee : A Novel
(1894 Lawrence & Bullen) - 3 vols (1895 Appleton)
The Paying Guest
(1894 Cassells's Pocket Library) (1895 Dodd Mead)
Eve's Ransom
(1895 Appleton, NY) (1895 Lawrence & Bullen) (1895 L & B. 2nd Ed)
Sleeping Fires
(1895 Fisher Unwin) (1896 Appleton NY)

1896-1900
The Whirlpool
(1897 Lawrence & Bullen) (1897 Stokes)
Charles Dickens : A Critical Study of the Works of
(1898 Blackie) (1898 Dodd Mead)
Human Odds and Ends : Stories & Sketches
(1898 Lawrence & Bullen)
The Town Traveller
(1898 Methuen) (1898 Stokes NY)
The Crown of Life
(1899 Methuen) (1899 Stokes, NY) (1927 Methuen. 2nd Ed)

1901-1905
By the Ionian Sea : Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
(1901 Chapman & Hall) (1905 Scribner NY)
Our Friend the Charlatan
(1901 Chapman & Hall) (1901 Henry Holt) - Launcelot Speed
Dickens in Memory
(1902)
Charles Dickens - A Critical Study
(1902 Gresham) - Imperial Edition. F G Kitton
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
(1903 Constable) (1903 Dutton, NY)
Veranilda : A Romance
(1904 Constable) (1905 Dutton)
Will Warburton : A Romance of Real Life
(1905 Constable) (1905 Dutton)

1906-1925
The House of Cobwebs & Other Stories
(1906 Constable)
Books and the Quiet Life : Being some Pages from the Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
(1914 Thomas B Mosher, Maine) - 975
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
(1921 T B Mosher, Maine) - 700
Sins of the Fathers & Other Tales
(1924 Pascal Covici, Chicago) - 550
Critical Studies of the Works of Charles Dickens
(1924 Greenberg, NY) - 1500 numbered
The Immortal Dickens
(1925 Cecil Palmer, London)

1926-1930
Two Letters from George Gissing to Joseph Conrad
(1926 First Edition Club, London) - 220
Letters to Members of His Family
(1927 Constable) - ed Algernon & Ellen Gissing
A Victim of Circumstances & Other Stories
(1927 Constable) (1927 Houghton Mifflin)
Demos : A Story of English Socialism
(1928 Eveleigh Nash & Grayson) - intro by Morley Roberts
A Life's Morning
(1928 Dutton, NY) - intro by Morley Edwards
A Yorkshire Lass
(1928 PP in NY) - 93 numbered
Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of George Gissing
(1929 Cape) (1929 Harrison Smith, NY)
Short Stories of To-Day and Yesterday
(1929 Harrap)
Hope in Vain
(1930 E H Blakeney at his Private Press) - 16

1931-1950
Brownie : Now first reprinted from the Chicago Tribune
(1931 Columbia UP) - 500
By the Ionian Sea
(ed Virginia Woolf) (1933)
Workers in the Dawn
(1935 Doubleday Doran NY) - 2 vols
Stories and Sketches
(1938 Michael Joseph)

1951 Onwards
Gissing and H G Wells - their Friendship & Correspondence - Edited by R A Gettmann
(1961 Hart-Davis) (1961 Illinois UP)
The Letters of George Gissing to Edward Bertz 1887-1903
(1961 Constable)
George Gissing's Commonplace Book : A MS in the Berg Collection of the NY Public Library
(1962 NY Public Library)
The Letters to Gabrielle Fleury
(1964 NY Public Library)
Notes on Social Democracy
(1968 Enitharmon Press, London) - 400
Isabel Clarendon
(1969 Harvester Press, Brighton)
Essays and Fiction
(1970 John Hopkins Press, Baltimore)
My First Rehearsal & My Clerical Rival
(1970 Enitharmon Press, London) - 350
The Letters to Edward Clodd
(1973 Enitharmon Press, London) - 450
Henry Hick's Recollections : Together with Gissing's Letters to Henry Hick
(1973 Enitharmon Press) - 450
The Diary of George Gissing
(1978 Harvester Press, London)
London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England : The Diary of George Gissing, Novelist
(1978 Harvester Press, Hassocks)
George Gissing on Fiction
(1978 Enitharmon Press, London) - 450
Six Sonnets on Shakespearean Heroines
(1982 E & J Stevens, London) - 250
Brief Interlude : The Letters to edith Sichel
(1987 Tragara Press) - 170. By Pierre Coustillas
Aphorisms and Reflections
(1989 Tragara Press) - 125

READING
Morley Roberts : The Private Life of Henry Maitland
(1912 Eveleigh Nash)
[ A novel based on Gissing's life by a friend]
Frank Swinnerton : Gissing - A Critical Study
(1912)
Henry Danielson : In His Bibliographies of Modern Authors
(1921)
May Yates : George Gissing - An Appreciation
(1922 Manchester UP)
Mabel Collins Donnelly :George Gissing - Grave Comedian
(1954 Harvard UP)
Jacob Korg : Gissing - A Critical Biography
(1965 Methuen)
Pierre Coustillas : George Gissing at Alderley Edge
(1969 Enitharmon Press) - 250
Pierre Coustillas : Gissing's Writings on Dickens : A Bibliographical Survey
(1971 Enitharmon Press. 2nd Ed) - 200
Pierre Coustillas & Colin Partridge : Gissing - The Critical Heritage
(1972 Routledge & Kegan Paul)
Michael Collie : George Gissing - A Bibliography
(1975 Dawson, London)
Michael Collie : George Gissing - A Biography
(1977 Dawson)
Pierre Coustillas : George Gissing and Ivan Turgenev
(1981 Enitharmon Press) - 250
John Halperin : Gissing - A Life in Books
(1982 OUP)

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