George Gissing: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As	George Robert Gissing
Born	November 22, 1857 • Wakefield • England
Died	December 28, 1903 (aged 46) • Saint-Jean-de-Luz • France
Notable Works	“Charles Dickens: A Critical Study” • “New Grub Street” • “The Odd Women” • “Workers in the Dawn”
Subjects Of Study	Charles Dickens

default image

Robert Graves

British writer

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

British writer

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Samuel Butler

English author [1835-1902]

E.M. Forster

E.M. Forster

British writer

Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis

British artist and writer

Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.

G.K. Chesterton

British author

default image

Arthur Ransome

English author

default image

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

A.S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt

British scholar, literary critic, and novelist

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

British author

default image

F.R. Leavis

British critic

default image

Ford Madox Ford

English author and editor

default image

John Wain

British critic and writer

Charlotte Lennox, detail of an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Charlotte Lennox

British author

Aldington, Richard

Richard Aldington

English author

C. Day-Lewis, 1968.

C. Day-Lewis

British poet

default image

L.P. Hartley

British writer and critic

Quiller-Couch, 1943

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British writer