There’s an interesting feature by Anthony Quinn in today’s Guardian about George Gissing’s
[amazon_image id=”1172766339″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]New Grub Street, a novel[/amazon_image]
Anyway, Gissing has long been one of my favourite of the great Victorian novelists, although less well known now than predecessors like Charles Dickens and George Eliot. George Orwell described Gissing as one of the best English novelists, and I think that might be because he shared the same preoccupations, the essentially economic ones of work and income at a time when industrial change is bringing about tremendous economic and social upheaval. Orwell was more concerned with the poorest people, in books like
Writers like
[amazon_image id=”0199538301″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Odd Women (Oxford World’s Classics)[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”1491261005″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Whirlpool[/amazon_image]
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