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                               GEORGE GISSING COLLECTION
 
 

100 items.

The Library has a complete collection of first editions of the novels of George Robert Gissing (1857-1903), who was educated
at a Quaker boarding school in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, and at Owens College, Manchester. Following his expulsion from
Owens for theft and a month spent in prison, in 1876 he travelled to America, wandering for a year, before returning to London
in 1877. The collection includes the Viscount Esher copy of Workers in the Dawn (1880), and the Hugh Walpole copy of
Born in Exile (1892), together with the 1924 Chicago edition of Sins of the Fathers. Also available is the 1912 edition of The
Private Life of Henry Maitland by Morley Roberts, extensively annotated by Edward Clodd and Clement Shorter. The only
important items listed by Collie which are not available in the collection are Gissing's Letters to Edward Clodd (1914), and the
undated Letters to an Editor.

Finding aids: recorded in general printed-book catalogue.

Location: JRULM (Deansgate).
 
 

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