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George Gissing was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England on November 22, 1857.
* He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and briefly at University College London.
* He was expelled from UCL for theft and spent a month in prison.
* He began writing novels in the early 1880s and published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880.
* He went on to publish 23 novels, including New Grub Street (1891), The Nether World (1889), and The Odd Women (1893).
* Gissing was a realist writer who was known for his unflinching portrayal of the lives of the working class.
* He died in Ispoure, France, on December 28, 1903.
* Gissing is considered one of the most important English novelists of the late Victorian period.