Gissing

American

[gis-ing] / ˈgɪs ɪŋ /

noun

George (Robert), 1857–1903, English novelist.

Gissing British

/ ˈɡɪsɪŋ /

noun

George ( Robert ). 1857–1903, English novelist, noted for his depiction of middle-class poverty. His works include Demos (1886) and New Grub Street (1891)

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Gissing had made a terrible hash of his early life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

George Orwell called Gissing “perhaps the best novelist England has produced,” and the Guardian included “New Grub Street” on its 2015 list of the 100 best English-language novels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Chunman Gissing, 65, has been coming to Viet-Wah since she moved to Seattle in the 1980s.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

“There was a deathly silence. Father looked shocked and terribly surprised,” Mrs. Gissing wrote in her memoir.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2022

They generalized, they discussed Marriage and George Gissing and Bernard Shaw and the suffrage movement and the agitation for the reform of the divorce laws.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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