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    The Magazine Stories - Volume I: "I maintain that we people of brains are justified in supplying the mob with the food it likes"
    The Magazine Stories - Volume I: "I maintain that we people of brains are justified in supplying the mob with the food it likes"
    The Magazine Stories - Volume I: "I maintain that we people of brains are justified in supplying the mob with the food it likes"
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    The Magazine Stories - Volume I: "I maintain that we people of brains are justified in supplying the mob with the food it likes"

    By George Gissing

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    George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire.

    He was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield. Gissing loved school. He was enthusiastic with a thirst for learning and always diligent. By the age of ten he was reading Dickens, a lifelong hero.

    In 1872 Gissing won a scholarship to Owens College. Whilst there Gissing worked hard but remained solitary. Unfortunately, he had run short of funds and stole from his fellow students. He was arrested, prosecuted, found guilty, expelled and sentenced to a month's hard labour in 1876.

    On release he decided to start over. In September 1876 he travelled to the United States. Here he wrote short stories for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. On his return home he was ready for novels.

    Gissing self-published his first novel but it failed to sell. His second was acquired but never published. His writing career was static. Something had to change. And it did.

    By 1884 The Unclassed was published. Now everything he wrote was published. Both Isabel Clarendon and Demos appeared in 1886. He mined the lives of the working class as diligently as any capitalist.

    In 1889 Gissing used the proceeds from the sale of The Nether World to go to Italy. This trip formed the basis for his 1890 work The Emancipated.

    Gissing's works began to command higher payments. New Grub Street (1891) brought a fee of £250.

    Short stories followed and in 1895, three novellas were published; Eve's Ransom, The Paying Guest and Sleeping Fires. Gissing was careful to keep up with the changing attitudes of his audience.

    Unfortunately, he was also diagnosed as suffering from emphysema. The last years of his life were spent as a semi-invalid in France but he continued to write. 1899; The Crown of Life. Our Friend the Charlatan appeared in 1901, followed two years later by The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft.

    George Robert Gissing died aged 46 on December 28th, 1903 after catching a chill on a winter walk.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMiniature Masterpieces
    Release dateJan 1, 2018
    ISBN9781787376861
    The Magazine Stories - Volume I: "I maintain that we people of brains are justified in supplying the mob with the food it likes"
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    George Gissing

    George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist. Born in Yorkshire, he excelled as a student from a young age, earning a scholarship to Owens College where he won prizes for his poetry and academic writing. Expelled and arrested for a series of thefts in 1876, Gissing was forced to leave England for the United States, teaching classics and working as a short story writer in Massachusetts and Chicago. The following year, he returned to England and embarked on a career as a professional novelist, publishing works of naturalism inspired by his experience of poverty and the works of Charles Dickens. After going through an acrimonious divorce, Gissing remarried in 1891 and entered a turbulent relationship with Edith Alice Underwood, with whom he raised two children before separating in 1897. During this time, after writing several unpublished novels, Gissing found success with New Grub Street (1891), Born in Exile (1892), and The Odd Women (1893). In the last years of his life, Gissing befriended H.G. Wells and travelled throughout Italy, Germany, and France, where he died after falling ill during a winter walk.

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      The Magazine Stories - Volume I - George Gissing

      The Magazine Stories by George Gissing

      Volume I

      George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire.

      He was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield. Gissing loved school. He was enthusiastic with a thirst for learning and always diligent.  By the age of ten he was reading Dickens, a lifelong hero.

      In 1872 Gissing won a scholarship to Owens College. Whilst there Gissing worked hard but remained solitary. Unfortunately, he had run short of funds and stole from his fellow students. He was arrested, prosecuted, found guilty, expelled and sentenced to a month's hard labour in 1876.

      On release he decided to start over.  In September 1876 he travelled to the United States. Here he wrote short stories for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. On his return home he was ready for novels.

      Gissing self-published his first novel but it failed to sell.  His second was acquired but never published. His writing career was static.  Something had to change.  And it did.

      By 1884 The Unclassed was published.  Now everything he wrote was published. Both Isabel Clarendon and Demos appeared in 1886. He mined the lives of the working class as diligently as any capitalist.

      In 1889 Gissing used the proceeds from the sale of The Nether World to go to Italy. This trip formed the basis for his 1890 work The Emancipated.

      Gissing's works began to command higher payments. New Grub Street (1891) brought a fee of £250.

      Short stories followed and in 1895, three novellas were published; Eve's Ransom, The Paying Guest and Sleeping Fires. Gissing was careful to keep up with the changing attitudes of his audience.

      Unfortunately, he was also diagnosed as suffering from emphysema. The last years of his life were spent as a semi-invalid in France but he continued to write. 1899; The Crown of Life. Our Friend the Charlatan appeared in 1901, followed two years later by The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft.

      George Robert Gissing died aged 46 on December 28th, 1903 after catching a chill on a winter walk.

      Index of Contents

      Lou and Liz

      Fleet-Footed Hester

      The Pretty Ways

      In Honour Bound

      Simple Simon

      The Tyrant’s Apology

      George Gissing – A Short Biography

      George Gissing – A Concise Bibliography

      LOU AND LIZ

      The great bell at Westminster was striking nine.

      Sunlight streamed into the garret window, bathing a robust, comely girl, who stood half-dressed before a looking-glass and combed out her tawny hair. In bed lay another girl, seemingly asleep, and on the pillow beside her perched a baby boy of eighteen months, munching at a biscuit.

      'Now then, Liz!' cried the girl who was dressing, as she took a hairpin from between her lips. 'Goin' to loy there all d'y? Wike up, do!' She began to sing in a strident voice, 'J'yful, j'yful will that meetin' be,―when from sin our 'arts are pure and free. Jacky, give mummy one on the 'ead. Liz, git up! 'Ow d'yer suppose we're goin' to git to London Bridge by eleven?' Again she sang: 'You can 'ear 'em soigh, an' wish to doy, an' see them wink the other eye,―at the man that browk the benk at Monty Car―lo! Say, Liz, did you 'ear Mr Tunks come 'ome last night? Same old capers; fallin' down all the time he was goin' up―Wike up, I tell yer!'

      Liz raised her head with a drowsy laugh.

      'Stop yer jaw, Lou! What a chatter-mag you are!'

      A rejoinder came in the shape of a pincushion, aimed sharply at the remonstrant. It missed Liz, and hit her child full in the face. The room rang with an infantile shriek of alarm and pain. In a moment Liz had jumped out of bed, had hurled back the missile with all her force at Lou, and in the same breath was trying to soothe the baby and to revile her friend. This time the pincushion knocked over the small looking-glass, which shattered upon the floor. For five minutes there was tumult―screaming, railing, scuffling; the storm of recrimination only ended when Lou discovered in her pocket―amid keys and coppers and dirt―a broken stick of chocolate, which she presented as peace-offering to Jacky.

      ''Ow'm oi to do my 'air?' asked Liz, as she stood in her nightgown and ruefully regarded the broken glass.

      'Oi'll do it for you,' Lou replied, giving her own locks a final slap.

      'An' now we've got to buy Mrs 'Uggins another glawss!'

      'Don't fret yer gizzard about that. I can get a measly little thing like this for sixpence. What's the odds s'long as y're 'eppy!―The man that browk the benk at Monty Car―lo!'

      'I dreamt it was rinin',' said Liz, as she drew the blind aside, and looked with satisfaction at the cloudless sky. 'Somethin' loike weather, this, for a Benk 'oliday. Say, Lou, you might give Jacky's face a wipe whilst I'm dressin'.'

      Discord between the two (it happened about once every half-hour when they were long together) always ended in a request for some favour, urged by the younger girl and cheerfully granted by her companion.

      They were nothing akin to each other, but had shared this garret for about a year. Liz worked at home, making quill toothpicks, and earning perhaps a shilling a day; Lou was a book folder, and her wages averaged eleven shillings a week; their money, on a system of pure communism, went to discharge their joint expenses. Alone, Liz could barely have supported herself and her child; as it was, they made ends meet, and somehow managed to save a few shillings against a Bank-holiday.

      Lou wore a gold wedding ring, and round her neck, hidden by her dress, hung a little wash-leather bag which contained a marriage certificate. It was her firm belief that on the preservation of these 'lines' depended the validity of her marriage. Three years had elapsed since, at the birth of a child, her husband saw fit to disappear; the baby died, and Lou went back to her old calling.

      Liz wore a brass wedding ring, and had no marriage certificate to show. She was known as 'Mrs Purkiss,' but was entitled only to 'Miss.' As to Jacky's father, his disappearance was as complete as that of Lou's husband.

      In their way they had suffered not a little, these two girls. But the worst seemed to be over. With admirable philosophy they lived for the day, for the hour. Liz was never burdened by a sense of gratitude to her friend; to Lou it never occurred that she herself was practising a singular generosity. They laughed and sang, squabbled and abused each other, drank beer when they could afford it, tea when they couldn't, starved themselves occasionally to have an evening at the Canterbury or at the Surrey (the baby, drugged if he were troublesome, sleeping now on his mother's lap, now on Lou's), and on a Bank-holiday mingled with the noisiest crowd they could discover.

      To-day they were going to Rosherville.

      Jacky wasn't very firm on his feet; considering the child's diet and his bringing up in general the wonder was that he trod this earth at all. He weighed very little, and the girls were so much in the habit of carrying him about wherever they went, that they rarely grumbled at the burden.

      It would have pleased them best to go down to Rosherville by steamer, but that cost a little more than the journey by train, and every penny had to be considered. Their tickets, both together, came to three-and-sixpence; eighteen-pence apiece remained for refreshment at the Gardens. Dinner they took with them―bread and slices of tinned beef; for tea, of course, there would be 'srimps and creases.' Before and after, those great mugs of ale which add so to the romance of Rosherville.

      What an Easter! Day after day, scarce a shadow across the sun. And so deliciously warm that one had been able to save no end of money from firing. On Good Friday they had lain in bed until dinner-time―'doin' a good sleep,'

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