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The Complete Works of George Gissing on Charles Dickens (Grayswood Press)

Pierre.Coustillas, The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part I: 1857-1888 (Pickering, 2011)
Pierre.Coustillas, The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part II: 1888-1897 (Pickering, 2012)
Pierre.Coustillas, The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III: 1897-1903 (Pickering, 2012)

It is because nations tend to stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. (The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, I, 16)

Strange how . . . I am possessed with the idea I shall not live much longer. Not a personal thought but is coloured by this conviction. I never look forward more than a year or two at the utmost, it is the habit of my mind, in utter sincerity, to expect no longer tenure of life than that. I don't know how this has come about; perhaps my absolute loneliness has something to do with it. Then I am haunted by the idea that I am consumptive; I never cough without putting a finger to my tongue, to see if there is a sign of blood. (George Gissing, Diary, June 1888)

WHAT'S NEW?

(11/11/08) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVIII, No. 4 (October, 2012)
(11/08/15) Pierre.Coustillas, The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III: 1897-1903 (Pickering, 2012)
(11/08/12) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVIII, No. 3 (July, 2012)
(11/05/12) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVIII, No. 2 (April, 2012)
(10/05/12) Pierre Coustillas, ed., Collected Short Stories: George Gissing, vol. 2 (Grayswood Press)
(30/01/12) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVIII, No. 1 (January, 2012)
(15/01/12) Pierre.Coustillas, The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part II: 1888-1897 (Pickering, 2012)
(24/11/11) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVII, No. 4 (October, 2011)
(31/07/11) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVII, No. 3 (July, 2011)
(02/08/11) Pierre.Coustillas, The Heroic Life of George Gissing (Pickering, 2011)
(27/04/10) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVII, No. 2 (April, 2011)
(26/01/11) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVII, No. 1 (January, 2011)
(01/11/10) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVI, No. 4 (October, 2010)
(27/07/10) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVI, No. 3 (July, 2010)
(01/07/10) Fourth International George Gissing Conference - "Gissing's World within the World: Art and the Artist" (University of York, UK, Monday 28 to Wednesday 30 March 2011)
(27/04/10) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVI, No. 2 (April, 2010)
(31/01/10) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLVI, No. 1 (January, 2010)
(30/01/10) Debbie Harrison, ed., Workers in the Dawn by George Gissing (Brighton: Victorian Secrets, 2010)
(08/10/09) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLV, No. 4 (October, 2009)
(27/07/09) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLV, No. 3 (July, 2009)
(16/07/09: James Haydock's tip) James Haydock, Beacon's River (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2009) - Based on the life and career of nineteenth-century novelist George Gissing, the book is about a man wrestling with destiny as he dreams of making his mark in the world.
(27/04/09) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLV, No. 2 (April, 2009)
(25/01/09) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLV, No. 1 (January, 2009)
(20/10/08) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLIV, No. 4 (October, 2008)
(29/07/08) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLIV, No. 3 (July, 2008)
(27/04/08) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLIV, No. 2 (April, 2008)
(25/04/08) Christine Huguet, ed., Spellbound, George Gissing (Haren, NL: Equilibris, 2008)
- Volume 1: The Storyteller
- Volume 2: A Twenty-first Century Reappraisal
(25/01/08) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLIV, No. 1 (January, 2008)
(07/12/07) George Gissing Returns from Exile: An exhibition at the John Rylands University Library, Deansgate, of manuscripts and printed books from The George Gissing / Kohler Collection, January-May 2008.
(29/11/07) Paul Delany, George Gissing: A Life (London: Orion, February 2008)
(06/11/07) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLIII, No. 4 (October, 2007)
(22/08/07) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLIII, No. 3 (July, 2007)
(22/05/07) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLIII, No. 2 (April, 2007)
(22/01/07) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLIII, No. 1 (January, 2007)
(07/01/07) Third International George Gissing Conference (Lille, March 2008) -- "Writing Otherness: The Pathways of George Gissing's Imagination"
(18/10/06) Find in a Library with WorldCat: The Gissing Journal
(25/09/06) Barbara Rawlinson, A Man of Many Parts: Gissing's Short Stories, Essays and Other Works (Rodopi, 1 September 2006)
(25/07/06) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLII, No. 3 (July, 2006)
(30/03/06) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLII, No. 2 (April, 2006)
(30/01/06) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLII, No. 1 (January, 2006)
(06/12/05) DeVine, Christine. Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells (Ashgate, 2005)
(11/11/05) John Spiers, ed. Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late-Victorian England (Palgrave Macmillan, March 2, 2006)
(2005.10.31) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLI, No. 4 (October, 2005)
(2005.09.16) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLI, No. 3 (July, 2005)
(2005.08.18) American Doctoral Dissertations: George Gissing
(2005.07.01) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLI, No. 2 (April, 2005)
(2005.06.30) George Gissing: The 'Summerhill' Connection
(2005.06.28) Shigeru Koike, "The Education of George Gissing"
(2005.05.17) Coustillas, Pierre. George Gissing: The Definitive Bibliography. Rivendale Press, 2005.
(2005.03.01) The Gissing Journal Vol. XLI, No. 1 (January, 2005)
(2004.11.23) Google Scholar - George Gissing
(2004.11.11) National Register of Archives
- George Robert Gissing (1857-1903)
- Algernon Gissing (1860-1937)
(2004.11.08) The Gissing Journal Vol. XL, No. 4 (October, 2004)
(2004.10.15) Portraits in Charcoal: Gissing's Image of Woman (Jim Haydock, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Wisconsin) => For further details.
(2004.09.08) The Gissing Journal Vol. XL, No. 3 (July, 2004)
(2004.05.19) George Gissing, "Autobiographical Notes with Comments upon Tennyson and Huxley" (e-text in pdf)
(2004.05.18) George Gissing, "An Heiress on Condition" (e-text in pdf)
(2004.05.10) The Gissing Journal Vol. XL, No. 2 (April, 2004)
(2004.03.25) Some Short Stories (PDF)
1. Simple Simon
2. Joseph
3. My First Rehearsal
4. My Clerical Rival
(2004.03.03) Simon J. James, Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing (Anthem Press)
(2004.03.01) The Gissing Journal Vol. XL, No. 1 (January, 2004)
(2004.01.20) By the Ionian Sea: Introduction and Notes by Pierre Coustillas (Signal Books, Oxford, 2004)
(2003.12.28) Gissing Hyper-Concordance (The Victorian Literary Studies Archive)
(2003.12.23) Deborah McDonald, Clara Collet 1860-1948: An Educated Working Woman (Woburn Press, Frank Cass)
(2003.12.22) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXIX, No. 4 (October, 2003)
(2003.11.11) Masahiko Yahata, "A Critical Enquiry into the Gissing Boom in Japan in the 1920s: The Special Gissing Number of Eigo Kenkyu, vol. 18 (1924), no. 8 (Gissing Journal 34.4 (1998): 11-18)
(2003.09.24) An Excerpt from Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866) by H. G. Wells.
(2003.09.10) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVIV, No. 3 (July, 2003)
(2003.07.07) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVIV, No. 2 (Spring, 2003)
(2003.6.18) The George Gissing Discussion List (Congratulations!)
(2003.6.10) The Centenary Conference (24/25 July 2003)
(2003.5.19) Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary - George Gissing
(2003.05.14) GISSING IN CYBERSPACE shows the contents pages for all the issues of THE GISSING NEWSLETTER and THE GISSING JOURNAL since January 1965.
(2003.03.20) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVIV, No. 1 (January, 2003)
(2003.01.20) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4 (October, 2002)
(09/25/02: Mary & Peter Wood's tip) George Gissing's Grave
(09/09/02) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3 (July, 2002)
(07/15/02) A Victim of Circumstances and Other Stories (16 e-texts)
(06/03/02) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2 (April, 2002)
(05/18/02) "The Sins of the Fathers and Other Tales (e-text, PDF)
(03/28/02) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1 (January, 2002)
(01/15/02) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVII, No. 4 (October, 2001)
(09/25/01: Ralph Parfect's tip) A new Greek translation ofSleeping Fires.
(09/20/01) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVII, No. 3 (July, 2001)
(06/09/01) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVII, No. 2 (April, 2001)
(04/04/01: Mary Wood's tip) Wakefield Historical Society
(04/03/01) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVII, No. 1 (January, 2001)
(03/09/01) VISIT THE GISSING CENTRE. The Hon. Secretary Mr. Anthony Petyt can be now contacted via e-mail: tonypetyt@bun.com.
(01/09/01) THE VICTORIAN AGE (Part One): The Nineteenth Century, II , edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller: XIV. George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing by W. T. YOUNG, M.A.
- Gissing
- Gissing's work transitional
- A comparison with Zola
- The delineation of poverty; Realism and pessimism
- Novels of the middle classes: problems discussed in New Grub Street, Born in Exile and The Odd Women
- The classical world; By the Ionian Sea; Veranilda
- The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
- Structure and style
(12/18/00) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVI, No. 4 (October, 2000)
(06/05/00) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVI, No. 3 (July, 2000)
(06/05/00) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 (April, 2000)
(03/13/00) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXVI, No. 1 (January, 2000)
(01/28/00: Deborah McDonald's tip) Clara Collet (1860-1948), probably George Gissing's closest friend during the last ten years of his life. (Deborah McDonald)
- A discussion on the relationship between Clara Collet and George Gissing
(01/01/00) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXV, No. 4 (October, 1999)
(09/14/99) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXV, No. 3 (July, 1999)
(06/14/99) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXV, No. 2 (April, 1999)
(04/29/99) Book Search Engine (Hyperportals LLC) => Authors: Subcategories of A-Z
(04/13/99) Mattheisen, Paul F. & Young, Arthur C, ed. With Gissing in Italy: The Memoirs of Brian Boru Dunne (Ohio University Press, 1999)
(04/12/99) Pierre Coustillas, "Gissing's Writings on Dickens"
(03/14/99) The Gissing Journal Vol. XXXV, No. 1 (January, 1999)
(02/09/99) Denzil Quarrier (e-text) -- The digitisation of all Gissing's novels has been completed!
(02/06/99: Sarah Wigley's tip) The Nineteenth Century [UK][USA] => Search [UK][USA]
- Search: Society and Culture [UK][USA]
- Search: Nineteenth Century Women Writers [UK][USA]
(01/27/99) The Emancipated (e-text)
(01/01/99) Veranilda (e-text)
(12/21/98) Eve's Ransom (e-text)
(12/16/98) Isabel Clarendon (e-text)
(12/14/98) The Gissing Journal, Vo.XXXIV, No.4 (October, 1998) (Contents List)
(11/31/98) Demos (e-text)
(11/09/98) Workers in the Dawn (e-text)
(10/12/98) Our Friend the Charlatan (e-text)
(10/02/98) "The Light on the Tower" (e-text)
(10/01/98) "A Victim of Circumstances" (e-text)
(09/22/98) The Gissing Journal, Vo.XXXIV, No.3 (July, 1998) (Contents List)
(08/04/98) Thyrza (e-text)
(07/25/98) The Crown of Life (e-text)
(07/24/98) Introduction to In the Year of Jubilee, by George Gissing (London: J.M. Dent, 1994) (Paul Delany, Simon Fraser University)

The Gissing's family home
Thompson's Yard, Wakefield
Ink and watercolour by Joe Clay
© The Gissing Trust, Wakefield

Strange thing that I, all of whose joys and sorrows come from excess of individuality, should be remarkable among men for my yieldingness to everyone and anyone in daily affairs. No man I ever met habitually sacrifices his own pleasures, habits, intentions to those of a companion, purely out of fear to annoy the latter. It must be a sign of extreme weakness, and it makes me the slave of men unspeakably inferior. (George Gissing, Diary, October 1888)

A Brief Biography

GISSING, George Robert (1857-1903)
novelist; left Owens College, Manchester, in disgrace for America, where he wandered penniless until 1877; studied literature and philosophy at Jena; returned to England, 1878; published Workers in the Dawn (1880); found an appreciative reader in Frederic Harrison, to whose sons he became tutor, 1882; gained precarious livelihood by occasional journalism; published The Unclassed; (1884), Demos (1886), and other novels illustrating degrading effects of poverty on character; visited Naples, Rome, and Athens; published A Life's Morning (1888), The Nether World (1889), The Emancipated (1890), New Grub Street (1891), Born in Exile (1892), and The Odd Women (1893); revisited Italy with H. G. Wells, 1897, recording some experiences and impressions in By the Ionian Sea (1901); in Rome he found material for historical romance Veranilda (published posthumously, 1907); on return to England wrote The Town Traveller (1898) and Our Friend the Charlatan (1901); died of pneumonia at St Jean-de-Luz; other workd include critical study of Charles Dickens (1898), and The House of Cobwebs (1906).

* The Concise Dictionary of National Biography

Some of his conclusions were conservative, but at heart he was a late-Victorian rebel against the power of convention. His rebellion was muted because he was preoccupied with failure. He had collected as great a store of specialized information about people who failed as Samuel Smiles had collected of people who succeeded. (Asa Briggs, Victorian Cities)

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