The middle years of the decade saw his reputation reach new heights: some critics count him alongside George Meredith and Thomas Hardy, the best novelists of his day. Between 18 (his so-called middle period) he produced his best works, which include New Grub Street, Born in Exile, The Odd Women, In the Year of Jubilee, and The Whirlpool. A brilliant student, he excelled at university, winning many coveted prizes, including the Shakespeare prize in 1875. From his early naturalistic works, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era.īorn to lower-middle-class parents, Gissing went to win a scholarship to Owens College, the present-day University of Manchester. This English novelist who published twenty-three novels between 18. People best know British writer George Robert Gissing for his novels, such as New Grub Street (1891), about poverty and hardship.
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