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George Gissing, the Glossary

George Robert Gissing (22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903.^[1]

90 relations: A Life's Morning, Abusive power and control, Alderley Edge, Algernon Gissing, Alimony, Arcachon, Arnold Bennett, Arthur Schopenhauer, Arthur Waugh, Auguste Comte, Austin Harrison, Émile Zola, Belle Vue Gaol, Biography, Born in Exile, Boston, British Museum Reading Room, Brixton, Budleigh Salterton, Charles Dickens, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Ciboure, Clara Collet, Common-law marriage, Demos (novel), Denzil Quarrier, Dictionary of National Biography, Dorking, Edmund Gosse, Edward Clodd, Epsom, Ernest Bernbaum, Eve's Ransom, Frank Swinnerton, G. K. Chesterton, George Eliot, George Meredith, George Orwell, Gillian Tindall, Gissing Family, H. G. Wells, In the Year of Jubilee, Ispoure, J. M. Barrie, Jena, John Forster (biographer), John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Juvenilia, Morley Roberts, ... Expand index (40 more) »

A Life's Morning

A Life's Morning is a novel by English author George Gissing.

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Abusive power and control

Abusive power and control (also controlling behavior and coercive control) is behavior used by an abusive person to gain and/or maintain control over another person.

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Alderley Edge

Alderley Edge is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England.

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Algernon Gissing

Algernon Fred Gissing (25 November 1860 – 5 February 1937) was an English novelist and the younger brother of George Gissing.

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Alimony, also called aliment (Scotland), maintenance (England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Canada, New Zealand), spousal support (U.S., Canada) and spouse maintenance (Australia), is a legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to their spouse before or after marital separation or divorce.

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Arcachon

Arcachon is a commune in the southwestern French department of Gironde.

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Arnold Bennett

Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. George Gissing and Arnold Bennett are 19th-century British short story writers and Victorian novelists.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher.

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Arthur Waugh

Arthur Waugh (27 August 1866 – 26 June 1943) was an English author, literary critic and publisher.

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Auguste Comte

Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 30 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.

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Austin Harrison

Austin Frederic Harrison (1873–1928) was a British journalist and editor, best known for his editorship of The English Review from 1909 until 1923.

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (also,; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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Belle Vue Gaol

Belle Vue Gaol (also known as Manchester City Gaol, Manchester Borough Gaol or Gorton Gaol) was a Victorian prison in Gorton, Manchester, England.

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Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.

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Born in Exile

Born in Exile is a novel by George Gissing first published in 1892.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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British Museum Reading Room

The British Museum Reading Room, situated in the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum, used to be the main reading room of the British Library.

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Brixton

Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England.

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Budleigh Salterton

Budleigh Salterton is a seaside town on the coast in East Devon, England, south-east of Exeter.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. George Gissing and Charles Dickens are 19th-century British short story writers and Victorian novelists.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Ciboure

Ciboure (Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia meaning 'end of bridge') is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

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Clara Collet

Clara Collet (10 September 1860 – 3 August 1948) was a British economist and civil servant.

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Common-law marriage

Common-law marriage, also known as non-ceremonial marriage, marriage, informal marriage, de facto marriage, or marriage by habit and repute, is a marriage that results from the parties' agreement to consider themselves married and subsequent cohabitation, rather than through a statutorily defined process.

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Demos (novel)

Demos: A Story of English Socialism is a novel by the English author George Gissing.

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Denzil Quarrier

Denzil Quarrier is a novel written by the English author George Gissing, which was originally published in February 1892.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885.

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Dorking

Dorking is a market town in Surrey in South East England about south of London.

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Edmund Gosse

Sir Edmund William Gosse (21 September 184916 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic.

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Edward Clodd

Edward Clodd (1 July 1840 – 16 March 1930) was an English banker, writer and anthropologist.

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Epsom

Epsom is a town in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, about south of central London.

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Ernest Bernbaum

Ernest Bernbaum (February 12, 1879 – March 8, 1958) was an American educator, scholar, writer and an opponent of the Suffragette movement.

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Eve's Ransom

Eve's Ransom is a novel by George Gissing, first published in 1895 as a serialisation in the Illustrated London News.

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Frank Swinnerton

Frank Arthur Swinnerton (12 August 1884 – 6 November 1982) was an English novelist, critic, biographer and essayist.

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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.

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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. George Gissing and George Eliot are 19th-century British novelists, 19th-century British short story writers, English short story writers and Victorian novelists.

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George Meredith

George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. George Gissing and George Meredith are Victorian novelists.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell.

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Gillian Tindall

Gillian Tindall (born 4 May 1938) is a British writer and historian.

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Gissing Family

The Gissing family of Great Britain included several noted writers, Olympic competitors, and teachers.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. George Gissing and H. G. Wells are 19th-century British short story writers, English short story writers and Victorian novelists.

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In the Year of Jubilee

In the Year of Jubilee is the thirteenth novel by English author George Gissing.

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Ispoure

Ispoure (Izpura) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. George Gissing and J. M. Barrie are Victorian novelists.

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Jena

Jena is a city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia.

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John Forster (biographer)

John Forster (2 April 1812 – 2 February 1876) was a Victorian English biographer and literary critic.

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John Rylands Research Institute and Library

The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England.

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Juvenilia

Juvenilia are literary, musical or artistic works produced by authors during their youth.

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Morley Roberts

Morley Charles Roberts (29 December 1857 – 8 June 1942) was an English novelist and short story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland. George Gissing and Morley Roberts are 19th-century British short story writers and English short story writers.

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Naturalism (literature)

Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.

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Nayland

Nayland is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Nayland-with-Wissington, in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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New Grub Street

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.

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Novella

A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paul Elmer More

Paul Elmer More (December 12, 1864 – March 9, 1937) was an American journalist, critic, essayist and Christian apologist.

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Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg.

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Raymond Williams

Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Russell Kirk

Russell Amos Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and author, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism.

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Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Donibane Lohitzune,, Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia locally Donibane Lohizune; Sent Joan de Lus; San Juan de Luz) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, southwestern France.

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Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port

Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (literally "Saint John Foot of Pass"; Donibane Garazi; San Juan Pie de Puerto) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

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Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet (19 September 18584 June 1939) was an English journalist and Liberal Member of Parliament and government minister.

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Smith, Elder & Co.

Smith, Elder & Co., alternatively Smith, Elder, and Co. or Smith, Elder and Co. was a British publishing company which was most noted for the works it published in the 19th century.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Temple Bar (magazine)

Temple Bar was a literary periodical of the mid and late 19th and very early 20th centuries (1860–1906).

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The Antioch Review

The Antioch Review is an American literary magazine established in 1941 at Antioch College in Ohio.

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The Fortnightly Review

The Fortnightly Review was one of the most prominent and influential magazines in nineteenth-century England.

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The Nether World

The Nether World is a novel written in 1889 by the English author George Gissing.

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The Odd Women

The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing.

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The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841.

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The Paying Guest

The Paying Guest is a satirical novella by George Gissing, first published in 1895 by Cassell, as part of their Pocket Library series.

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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft is a semi-fictional autobiographical work by George Gissing in which the author casts himself as the editor of the diary of a deceased acquaintance, selecting essays for posthumous publication.

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The Town Traveller

The Town Traveller is a 1898 novel by George Gissing.

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The Unclassed

The Unclassed is a novel by the English author George Gissing.

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The Whirlpool (George Gissing novel)

The Whirlpool is a novel by English author George Gissing, first published in 1897.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. George Gissing and Thomas Hardy are 19th-century British short story writers, English short story writers and Victorian novelists.

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Three-volume novel

The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century.

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Tribune (magazine)

Tribune is a democratic socialist political magazine founded in 1937 and published in London, initially as a newspaper, then converting to a magazine in 2001.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England.

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University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England.

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Veranilda

Veranilda: A Romance is a posthumous novel by English author George Gissing.

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Victoria University of Manchester

The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England.

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer. George Gissing and Virginia Woolf are 19th-century British short story writers and English short story writers.

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Wakefield

Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder.

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Waltham, Massachusetts

Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution.

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