WRITER

George Gissing

1857 - 1903

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George Robert Gissing (; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. In the 1890s he was considered one of the three greatest novelists in England, and by the 1940s he had been recognised as a literary genius. Gissing's best-known works have reappeared in modern editions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Gissing has received more than 382,840 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). George Gissing is the 3,564th most popular writer (up from 3,810th in 2019), the 2,550th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,800th in 2019) and the 291st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Born in exile
Social life and customs, Fiction, Classic Literature
1892
The whirlpool
Social life and customs, England in fiction, Fiction
1897
Demos
Fiction, England in fiction, Socialism
1800
The private papers of Henry Ryecroft
1900
New Grub Street
Fiction, Journalists, Authors
1891
The odd women
Fiction, Women, Middle class women
Five odd women—women without husbands—are the subject of this powerful novel, graphically set in Victorian London, by a writer whose perceptions about people, particularly women, would be remarkable in any age and are extraordinary in the 1890's. The story concerns the choices that five different women make or are forced to make, and what those choices imply about men's and women's place in society and relationship to each other. Alice and Virginia Madden, suddenly left adrift by the death of their improvident father, must take grinding and humiliating "genteel" work. Pretty, vulnerable, and terrified of sharing their fate, their younger sister Monica accepts a proposal of marriage from a man who gives her financial security but drives her to reckless action by his insane jealousy. Interwoven with their fortunes are Mary Barfoot and Rhoda Nunn, who are dedicating their lives to training young women for independent and useful lives, for emotional as well as economic freedom. Feminine and spirited, they are seeking not to overthrow men but to free both sexes from everything that distorts or depletes their humanity—including, if necessary, marriage. Into their lives comes Mary's engaging and forceful cousin Everard Barfoot, and as he and Rhoda become locked in an increasingly significant and passionate struggle, Rhoda finds out through the refining fire what "love" sometimes means, and what it means to be true to herself. It is best to check out the link to "things mean a lot" for a good review of this book.
1893

Page views of George Gissings by language

Over the past year George Gissing has had the most page views in the with 37,209 views, followed by French (4,207), and Japanese (3,988). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Eastern Punjabi (540.35%), Cornish (98.86%), and Finnish (79.82%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Gissing ranks 3,564 out of 7,302. Before him are Edith Durham, Joss Whedon, Oppian, Jorge de Montemor, Louis Adamic, and Altaf Hussain Hali. After him are Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Ernst Weiss, Robert Garnier, Liza Marklund, Safvet-beg Bašagić, and Robert W. Chambers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, George Gissing ranks 91. Before him are Gabriela Zapolska, Gunnar Heiberg, Louis Dollo, Knut Ångström, Eva Bonnier, and Theodor Curtius. After him are Albert Ballin, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Anita Augspurg, Ivo Vojnović, Georges Leygues, and Joseph Larmor. Among people deceased in 1903, George Gissing ranks 50. Before him are Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, Ozaki Kōyō, Tang Jingsong, Karl Gegenbaur, and Auguste Kerckhoffs. After him are Gustav Radde, Girolamo de Rada, Frederick Law Olmsted, Lina Sandell, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, and Konstantinos Paspatis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Gissing ranks 2,550 out of 8,785. Before him are Dominic Purcell (1970), Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878), Edith Durham (1863), Blanche of England (1392), Philip Stone (1924), and Simon Le Bon (1958). After him are James Galway (1939), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Robert Kerr (1882), Walter Legge (1906), Harry Brearley (1871), and Alan Lee (1947).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, George Gissing ranks 291. Before him are Andrew Lang (1844), William Cowper (1731), Henri Alleg (1921), Edwin Arnold (1832), Leslie Stephen (1832), and Edith Durham (1863). After him are Graham Hancock (1950), I. A. Richards (1893), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Siegfried Sassoon (1886), William Robertson Smith (1846), and Diana Mosley (1910).

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