George Gissing

George Gissing was born in 1857 in Wakefield, the son of a chemist, and at college in Manchester proved a brilliant pupil, laden with prizes. He was expelled from it and imprisoned for a month at the age of eighteen for thefts committed on behalf of a prostitute whom he later married. He lived on private lessons and wrote twenty-two novels in poverty. He died in 1903 at the age of forty-six, in the south-west of France, of a chest disease.

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• NovelNew Grub StreetGeorge Gissing · 1891LiteraturePublic domain