George Robert Gissing was a thoroughly earnest and amazingly prolific writer, producing twenty-two novels, many works of nonfiction, and more than a hundred sketches and tales during his twenty-six-year career (the exact number of his stories is still un...
Although he was once best known as the author of a volume of essays, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), George Gissing is now recognized as one of the important novelists of the late Victorian period. His reputation rests on the long series of...
Although George Gissing would have denied being a book collector and obliquely did so in his semiautobiographical The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903), the last book he published in his lifetime, evidence that he had the turn of mind and habits of...
Will Warburton, George Gissing's last novel, was published in 1905, three years after Gissing's death. Will Warburton is a young gentleman of means, a man of commerce, who, losing everything in speculation, is forced into the life of a grocer, a thing...
Although the family firm of Warburtons have seven bakeries located primarily in the North of England, the new plant bakery at Eastwood near Nottingham is the first to be purpose-built on a greenfield site since their original Model Bakery was opened in Bolton in...
Ernest Warburton Scholarship and the media can often make for inimical bedfellows, but Ernest Warburton combined the one with little detriment to the other. For most of his career he was an executive with BBC Radio; but he was also a musicologist of...
