Educated at Owens College, Manchester where he was a brilliant student. He went to London in 1875 and then on to America, where he was unsuccessful and experienced some of the poverty that he would later write about in his novels. He returned to London, and published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880. Working as a private tutor to earn a living, Gissing then published The Unclassed in 1884 and this was followed by Demos (1886), A Life's Morning (1888), The Nether World (1889), The Emancipated (1890) and his best work, New Grub Street in 1891. Some other novels of note include The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903) and Will Warburton (1905 - posthumous). |
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