
Fiction of George Gissing
Most of George Gissing''s 23 novels have a certain air of autobiography, despite Gissing''s frequent arguments that his fictional plots bear little resemblance to his own life and experiences. Starting with Workers in the Dawn (1880), almost all of Gissing''s fictional works are set in his own time period of late-Victorian England, and five of his first six novels focus on the working-class poo...
Most of George Gissing''s 23 novels have a certain air of autobiography, despite Gissing''s frequent arguments that his fictional plots bear little resemblance to his own life and experiences. Starting with Workers in the Dawn (1880), almost all of Gissing''s fictional works are set in his own time period of late-Victorian England, and five of his first six novels focus on the working-class poo...