biography
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Gissing, George (Robert)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1903)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Manchester, was expelled from the university, travelled to the USA, and returned to work as a tutor in London. Workers in the Dawn (1880) was the first of over 20 novels largely presenting realistic portraits of poverty and misery, such as Born in Exile (1892) and The Odd Women (1893). His best-known novel is New Grub Street (1891), a bitter study of corruption in the literary world. The Diary of George Gissing, Novelist appeared in 1982. |
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