GISSING, GEORGE ROBERT


Meaning of GISSING, GEORGE ROBERT in English

born Nov. 22, 1857, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Eng.

died Dec. 28, 1903, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France

British novelist.

He had a brilliant academic career but an unhappy personal life; twice involved in miserable marriages, he experienced the life of near poverty and constant drudgery that he described in New Grub Street , 3 vol. (1891), his best-known work, and The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903). Inspired by Honoré de Balzac , he wrote a cycle of 22 novels, which included Born in Exile (1892) and The Odd Women (1893). His realistic novels of lower-middle-class life are noted for their acute perception of women's social position and psychology.

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