THE GISSING JOURNAL

• Professor Maria Teresa Chialant, University of Salerno
• Hélène Coustillas, La Madeleine
• Professor Richard Dennis, University of London
• Dr David Grylls, University of Oxford
• Professor Constance Harsh, Colgate University
• Dr. Christine Huguet, University of Lille
• Dr. José María Díaz Lage, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
• Mitsuharu Matsuoka, University of Nagoya
• Markus Neacey, Berlin
• Dr Christina Sjöholm, Uppsala University
• Dr John Sloan, University of Oxford
• Professor Luisa Villa, University of Genova

Publisher and Editor

• Markus Neacey, Berlin

The Gissing Journal is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October. Subscriptions are normally on a two-year basis and begin with the January number. Rates for two years are as follows:

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The Gissing Journal publishes essays and book reviews on Gissing and his circle. Contributions may deal with bibliographical, biographical, critical, and topographical subjects. Please send them as a Word document to the editor, Markus Neacey, by email to forfarmarkus@fastmail.co.uk. Essays are welcome from academics and enthusiasts.

NB. After publishing their work in this journal, academics are encouraged to post their essays on the websites of their home institutions.

ISSN: 0962-0443

Vol. LVI, No. 2 (April, 2022)

• “To please the vulgar”: Transformative Writing and Reading in New Grub Street and The Odd Women, by Amanda Farage
• Brutality in the Slums: Presentations of Violence and Gender in George Gissing’s The Nether World (1889) and Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago (1896), by Daniel Rowley
• Chit-Chat
• George Gissing’s Socialism in Demos Revisited, by Chris Payne
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• “I Felt Like Writing to Him [George Gissing],” by Christopher Baggs
• Chit-Chat
• Of Booksellers, Editors, and Demons: George Gissing at 432 Euston Road, by Markus Neacey
• Book Reviews, by David Grylls and Frederick Nesta
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Edith Lister: Chameleon Woman of Letters and her Relationship with Arthur Bullen, by Bouwe Postmus
• Chit-Chat
• Mapping Gissing’s Chronotopes from Text to Code to Graph, by Rebecca Hutcheon
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• For Hélène Coustillas: in Commemoration of Her Outstanding Contribution to Gissing Studies
• In “the shadow of harsh destiny”: Gissing’s “A Calamity at Tooting,” by Richard Dennis
• Algernon Gissing’s The Wealth of Mallerstang and the Readers of The Cardiff and South Wales Weekly News, by Chris Payne
• Henry Ryecroft Lives Again: An Encounter on Westminster Bridge, by Markus Neacey
• Upper Westgate, Wakefield Heritage Action Zone: The Gissing Centre, by Geoff Dibb
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece: Hélène and Pierre

• In Search of Rosherville Gardens, by Richard Gosling
• Chit-Chat
• Dissonance of Class and Personal Aesthetic: Pathos in Gissing’s Born in Exile, New Grub Street, and The Unclassed, by Lucy Sullivan
• In Commemoration of the 700th Anniversary of Dante’s Death: Notes on Gissing and Dante, by Vincenzo Pepe
• Gissing and Genetics: A Note, by Lucy Sullivan
• Book Reviews: by Rebecca Hutcheon and Michele Russo
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece: Gissing on Women by a Contemporary Feminist Critic

• To Mark the 150th Anniversary of Thomas Waller Gissing’s Death (Markus Neacey)
• The “Literary Machine”: Fantasies of Automation in New Grub Street (Kira Braham)
• Naturalism in Gissing’s The Nether World and Zola’s L’Assommoir (Melissa Todd)
• Morley Roberts’ Speech at the New Vagabonds Club (Markus Neacey)
• Chit-Chat (Markus Neacey)
• Book Reviews (David Grylls and Lorenzo Buonvivere)

• Preface: Gissing in Vogue (Tom Ue)
• Marriage Not à la Mode (Rachel Bowlby)
• Gissing’s Pianos (Richard Dennis)
• The Odd One or Two (Christopher Douglas)
• Walking-Sticks (Annette Federico)
• “For Her Own Satisfaction Alone”? Dress in The Odd Women (Constance D. Harsh)
• False Hair and Paradoxical Performance in The Nether World (Peter Katz)
• “[They] Hung About Him Unregarded”: Clothing, Social Mobility and Hope (Mike Lesiuk)
• Fashionable Nonsense in Gissing’s The Whirlpool (Drue McPherson)
• “Of Course It Was Meant to Be Vicious”: Poses Plastiques in Workers in the Dawn (Diana Maltz)
• Gissing’s Look (Kevin A. Morrison)
• “Matters Sartorial”: Clothing as Social Discourse in Born in Exile (Lynda Mugglestone)
• Gissing’s “Foolish” Virgin: Rosamund’s Predetermined Fate (Allison Munday)
• Fashion in Sixth-Century Rome (Gareth Reeves)
• Women’s Fashion: The Deceit in Dress (Lydia Shaw)
• Art and Dress in “A Victim of Circumstances” (Margaret D. Stetz)
• Gissing and the Modern Idea: A Thought (Jeremy Tambling)
• Blind Beggars (Heather Tilley)
• Gissing’s Hands (Tom Ue)
• Biffen’s Overcoat (Luisa Villa)
• From ‘Native Rags’ to Riches? Sartorial Aspiration in The Nether World (Minna Vuohelainen)
• Bibliography (Tom Ue)

• “Cold wet feet under a wet umbrella”: Katherine Mansfield’s Response to George Gissing (Ann Herndon Marshall)
• Thomas Waller Gissing and the Wakefield Bribers (Bouwe Postmus)
• Linguistic Otherness in By the Ionian Sea. Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy (1901): a Comparison with Giovanni Verga’s Short Stories (Michele Russo)
• Notes and News: Call for Papers, Gissing Session at Northeast MLA, Philadelphia, 14-17/3/2021 (Josephine McQuail)

• George Gissing’s Dullness by Design (Ashar Foley)
• End of a Wild-Goose Chase: James Paterson’s Biography of George Gissing (Bouwe Postmus)
• From Hoxton to Holloway: Suburbanising North London in Demos and Beyond (Jason Finch)
• Book Review (Luca Brezzo)
• Chit-Chat (Markus Neacey)
• Tailpiece: George Gissing by George C. Williamson

• Precious Balms: A Fragment of Machen and Gissing Criticism (George Gorniak)
• Further Update of Algernon Gissing’s Literary Output (Bouwe Postmus)
• George Gissing and Caradoc Evans, “one of the most remarkable Welshmen of his time” (Christopher Baggs)
• Chit-Chat: Flowers for Algernon (Markus Neacey)
• Algernon Gissing in Focus: The Life of a Novel from 1901(Markus Neacey)
• “The Fog” by Morley Roberts

• Grubbing A Living (Christopher Douglas)
• Anthony Petyt: Our Man in Wakefield (1942-2019) (Bouwe Postmus)
• The Gissing-Gaussen Connection: the Levy Sisters (Markus Neacey)
• Gissing and Exeter, Part Three: Man About Town (Richard Dennis)
• Chit-Chat (Markus Neacey)
• “Dyce Lashmar and I are very old acquaintances”: Keir Hardie on Gissing’s Our Friend the Charlatan (Markus Neacey)
• Book Review: George Gissing, Racconti americani (Michele Russo)
• Tailpiece: Two Contemporary Reviews of By the Ionian Sea

• “The unceasing questioner; to whom, indeed, there is no reply”: Life, Death, and Meaning in
• Gissing’s Fiction (Zeynep Harputlu Shah)
• The July 2019 Literary London Society Conference: “Gissing, Clerkenwell, and Coustillas” (Tom Ue)
• How a French Scholar Set a Young Student on His Own Scholarly Career (Hélène Coustillas)
• Gissing and Exeter, Part Two: Reading between the Lines (Richard Dennis)
• Chit-Chat (Markus Neacey)
• Gissing and the Auditory Imagination: A Survey of Recent Studies (Tom Ue)
• Tailpiece: Ellen Gissing on Morley Roberts’ Fictional Biography of George Gissing

• Gissing and Exeter, Part One: A Man of Property (Richard Dennis)
• What do we know of the relationship between Miss Orme and George Gissing? (Hélène Coustillas)
• Chit-Chat (Markus Neacey)
• Thrills and Stills: The Making and Screening of Demos, the 1921 Silent Film (Markus Neacey)

• Further Fragments of Two Lives: Machen and Gissing (George Gorniak)
• Make Love, Not War: George Gissing’s The Crown of Life (Flora T. Higgins)
• Some Newly-Discovered Contemporary Reviews of Gissing’s Early Novels (Markus Neacey)
• Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group Report on Gissing (Chris Baggs)
• Book Review: George Gissing, Il fuoco sotto la cenere (Lorenzo Buonvivere)
• Pierre Coustillas at the 1999 Gissing Conference in Amsterdam (Karina Of)

• All Quiet on the German Front? George Gissing, the German Critic, and the German Soldier (Markus Neacey)
• Advertisement: The Dickens Fellowship
• Robert Livingstone Selig 1932-2018 (Markus Neacey)
• Remembering Pierre Coustillas (Colin and Viviane Lovelace)
• Chit-Chat (Markus Neacey)
• Book Review (Alessandra Di Pietro)
• Announcement: CFP Pierre Coustillas and George Gissing (Tom Ue)

• This is a special Supplement to The Gissing Journal with an obituary and tributes in memory of Pierre Coustillas from friends, colleagues, and admirers.

• Pierre Coustillas: 1930-2018 (Bouwe Postmus, Christine Huguet, and Markus Neacey)
• Q. D. Leavis’s Interest in George Gissing (Ying Ying)
• Gissing the Radical (Tom Ue)
• Gissing in Hungary (Bouwe Postmus)
• Gissing and the Topographies of Lambeth, Part Two: From Lambeth Walk to Brixton and Beyond (Jason Finch)
• Updating the Updates: Algernon Gissing’s Short Stories (Bouwe Postmus)
• Remembering John Halperin (Tom Ue)

• Gissing and the Topographies of Lambeth, Part One: Boundaries, Walks, Thyrza (Jason Finch)
• 25 St Paul’s Crescent (Christopher Douglas)
• George Gissing’s Long Journey to Potsdam (Markus Neacey)
• Odd Women Read The Odd Women (Flora T. Higgins)
• Why the Dickens is Gissing Missing? (Markus Neacey)

• Gissing and Chelsea: An Urban Walk (Richard Dennis)
• Fragments of Life: Arthur Machen and George Gissing (George Gorniak)
• Gender, Type, and Individual Identity in Isabel Clarendon (Constance D. Harsh)
• Chit-Chat (Markus Neacey)
• Book Review: La vera storia di Will Warburton (Maria Teresa Chialant)
• Tailpiece: An Early Review of The Odd Women

• Born in Exile at 125 (Tom Ue)
• George Gissing’s “nomadic thought” and the Vibrant Experience of By the Ionian Sea (Emanuela Ettorre)
• Baron Corvo, the Socialist Politician, and the “Mysterious” Third Man: A Chronicle of 1893 and 1894 (Markus Neacey)
• George Gissing’s The Town Traveller: A Comedy, By Jorrocks! (Flora T. Higgins)
• Gissing and Naples (Vincenzo Pepe)
• The Dickens Fellowship of Japan Annual General Meeting: “Dickens and Gissing” (Mitsuharu Matsuoka)

• Born in Exile at 125 (Tom Ue)
• George Gissing’s “nomadic thought” and the Vibrant Experience of By the Ionian Sea (Emanuela Ettorre)
• Chit-Chat (Markus Neacey)
• Imagining the Past: Renger van den Heuvel on Gissing and Geerten Meijsing (Tom Ue)
• Thomas Waller Gissing and His Wakefield Friends: Their Work in Natural History from 1850 to 1870 (R. A. Baker)
• Book Review: Le donne di troppo (Maria Teresa Chialant)
• Italian Editions of George Gissing’s Works (Markus Neacey)
• Tailpiece: George Gissing by William Morris Colles

• An Introduction to Gissing’s “The Hope of Pessimism” (Roger Milbrandt)
• “The Hope of Pessimism,” A New Transcription (Roger Milbrandt)
• Chit-Chat (Markus Neacey)
• The Continuing Story of the Coward Family (Bouwe Postmus)
• Book Review: The Gissing Journal: A History and Index 55 of the First 50 Years (William Greenslade)
• Tailpiece: A New George Gissing

• Gissing Laughs, Wells Sighs: The Wells Way on BBC Radio 4 (Tom Ue)
• Born in Exile, Bakhtin, and the Double-Voiced Discourse of the Epistolary Form (Rebecca Hutcheon)
• A Compendium of Mysteries in Gissing Studies (Markus Neacey)
• George Gissing and Advertising (Frederick Nesta)
• Book Reviews (David Grylls and Markus Neacey)

• The Fifth International Gissing Conference, George Gissing and Place: A Personal Response (Rebecca Hutcheon)
• Announcement (Markus Neacey)
• “The Foolish Virgin” and Her Twentieth-Century Descendant (Gillian Tindall)
• Algernon Gissing’s “Hidden Fire,” Other Discoveries, and An Updated Bibliography (Markus Neacey)
• Obituary: Jacob Korg (1922-2015) (Nora Wright)
• Book Review: New Grub Street (Markus Neacey)

• Sport and Leisure in Gissing’s Satirical Tales, Part 1 (Petra Schenke)
• In Memoriam: Anthony Curtis (1926-2014) (Hélène Coustillas)
• Book Review (Markus Neacey): New Grub Street, ed. Anthony Quinn. London: Vintage Classics, Random House, 2014

• J. J. Thomson’s 1929 Letter Resurfaces (M. D. Allen)
• Marianne Helen Harrison: A Medical Diagnosis (Una Forsyth)
• Another Gissing Dissertation (Ying Ying)
• Book Reviews (William Greenslade): George Gissing and the Woman Question: Convention and Dissent, eds. Christine Huguet and Simon J. James. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013; (Wulfhard Stahl): Italy’s Lost Greece: Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology, by Giovanna Ceserani. New York: OUP, 2012

• Mapping the City: The Problems with Mimesis in Gissing’s The Nether World (Rebecca Hutcheon)
• Knowing Your Place: Place and Class in Gissing’s “Slum” Novels, concluded (Pat Colling)
• A New Gissing Ph.D. (Rebecca Hutcheon)
• Gissing and the Victorian Web (M. D. Allen)

• Knowing Your Place: Place and Class in George Gissing’s “Slum” Novels, Part 1 (Pat Colling)
• Gissing Reviewed on Amazon (Robin Friedman)

• "Fred Barnard's Illustrations for 'The Fate of Humphrey Snell' and 'An Inspiration' in The English Illustrated Magazine, 1895" (Philip V. Allingham)
• "Gissing and Poe: A Postscript" (George Gorniak)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "An Impossible Act to Follow!"
• "Gissing's Address Book" (Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Review (Simon J. James): Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf, by David Welsh. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Two Unpublished Gissing Letters in the Beinecke Library (Pierre Coustillas)
• Homage to George Whale (1846-1925)
• Short Stories by Algernon Gissing published in Australia: More Additions (Bouwe Postmus)
• Book Reviews (Robin Friedman, Markus Neacey, and Wulfhard Stahl)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• Irony, Narrative Hybrids, and Genre Theory: The Dramatic Monologue and Gissing's Short Fiction (Tom Ue)
• The Othello of Herne Hill (M. D. Allen)
• George Gissing and Edgar Allan Poe - Part Two (George Gorniak)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• The "Ground-Floor" Maiden Lady: Fanny Lebreton, George Gissing and Salomon Reinach (Hervé Duchêne)
• Gissing Reviewed on Amazon (Robin Friedman)
• Book Reviews (Bouwe Postmus and Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• Gissing Commemorated again by the Ionian Sea (Pierre Coustillas)
• Ellen Sophia Whittington's Generosity: the Sources of the Whittington Fortune (Bouwe Postmus)
• Morley Roberts's Literary Career in the 1880s and 1890s (concluded) (Markus Neacey)
• Book Reviews (Bouwe Postmus)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• Morley Roberts's Literary Career in the 1880s and 1890s (Markus Neacey)
• Four Novels of George Gissing's by Edith Searle Grossmann (Matthew Woollard)
• Book Reviews (Wulfhard Stahl and Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• George Gissing and Edgar Allan Poe (George Gorniak)
• Gissing Reviewed on Amazon
• Private Tuition: A Burdensome Phase in Gissing's Life (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Teaching Gissing in the Twenty-First Century (Simon J. James et al.)
• In the Year of Jubilee and Eve's Ransom: Alternative Trajectories form a Common Impulse (Lucy Sullivan)
• Additional Antipodean Algernon Gissing Titles (Bouwe Postmus)
• Gissing Collection for Sale
• Book Reviews (Bouwe Postmus and Christine DeVine)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• The Fourth International George Gissing Conference: A Personal Response (Debbie Harrison)
• Robert Petremant's Friendship with Gissing (Bouwe Postmus)
• Our Mutual Friend: A Source for A Life's Morning (M. D. Allen)
• "A Bookman's Notes: George Gissing," Written in the Wake of the 1927 Edition of Thyrza (A. N. Monkhouse)
• Book Reviews (Markus Neacey and Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• Roman Celebrations of Christmas Seen in Perspective: Gissing's Essay "Christmas on the Capitol"
• "The Knight of the Simple Heart": Twemlow into Tymperley (M. D. Allen)
• A Model for the Typing Office in Gissing's The Odd Women (Lawrence Rainey)
• The Privately Published Editions of Gissing's Works (Pierre Coustillas)
• Reviews (Simon J. James and Ian J. Deary)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• William Gissing Stannard, Memorialist: History and Legend, a Rambling Commentary (Pierre Coustillas)
• Wisconsin Public Radio, University of the Air: Gissing Interview with M. D. Allen
• Book Review (David Grylls)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• "The Secret of the Busento"

• Mapping Gissing's Workers in the Dawn (Richard Dennis)
• Exteriors, Interiors and Interiority in Workers in the Dawn (Debbie Harrison)
• Clerkenwell as Hell - Gissing's "nether world" (Andrew Whitehead)
• Gissing's Copy of Lecky's History of European Morals (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Anthony Powell and George Gissing (Anthony Curtis)
• The Last Years of Edith Underwood (Anthony Petyt)
• On Virginia Woolf's First Two Gissing Reviews and Parallel Chapters in New Grub Street and The Voyage Out (Robert Selig)
• George Gissing's Voyage to America and the Hazardous Career of the "Good ship 'Parthia'" (Markus Neacey)
• Fourth International George Gissing Conference
• Gissing Abused and Betrayed: An Angry Review (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• Vanity Fair: A Source for The Whirlpool (M. D. Allen)
• Two Early Gissing Reviews Discovered (Bouwe Postmus)
• "Turning Over a Score of Letters. . ." and the Pages of a Diary: The Friendship of George Gissing and Arthur Bowes (Markus Neacey)
• Book Reviews
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Thomas Waller Gissing before his Move to Wakefield: Some Materials towards his Biography (Bouwe Postmus)
• George Gissing and Rupert Hart-Davis (George Gorniak)
• Gissing and Vesuvius (Vincenzo Pepe)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• Manchester 1911-1914: Gissing Slandered and Extolled - Homage to Percy Withers, C. H. Herford and A. N. Monkhouse (Pierre Coustillas)
• Arthur C. Clarke Looking Backward 1967-1898 and Morley Roberts Anticipating: A Literary Oddity (Markus Neacey)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• The Sinden Bequest (Anthony Petyt)
• Depressive Gissing: Reconsidering Gillian Tindall's Diagnosis (Robert L. Selig)
• The Gissings' Wakefield Circle: VII - Samuel and Lucy Bruce (Anthony Petyt)
• Gissing and Horace (Vincenzo Pepe)
• Gissing in French Louisiana (Christine DeVine)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• Gissing's Scarcest Story: Redemption "At Nightfall" or Tribute to a Virtuous Woman (Markus Neacey)
• Gissing's Membership of the Association for the Improvement of Public Morals (Bouwe Postmus)
• "A very decent fellow, intelligent and cordial": Gissing's Contact with the American Journalist Joseph Anderson (Pierre Coustillas)
• A Collector's Lament (Bouwe Postmus)
• Obituary: Francesco Badolato, 1926-2009 (Pierre Coustillas) and farewell letter (Wulfhard Starl)
• Book Reviews (Pierre Coustillas)
• Recent Publications

• How Secure Was George Gissing? A Study of Gissing's Income between 1889 and 1903 (Roger Milbrandt)
  followed by A Revision of George Gissing's "Account of Books"
• Art and Money: George Gissing, D. H. Lawrence and the Literary Marketplace (Andrew Marrison)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Margaret Bedford Gissing, Pendennis, and the Manchester Deébâcle (M. D. Allen)
• Cornwall Mansions: The Rise and Fall of 7K and Its Neighbours (Richard Dennis)
• St Ruth: George Gissing's Drill-Sergeant in War and Peach (Markus Neacey)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece: Malwida von Meysenbug

• The Third International George Gissing Conference, 27-28 March 2008, Lille, France: A Personal Response (M. D. Allen)
• The Festschrift (William Greenslade)
• The Gissings' Wakefield Circle: VI - The Ash Family (Anthony Petyt)
• "His favourite work,--education" The Letters of Eduard Bertz to Heinrich Rehfeldt, 1880 (Markus Neacey and Wulfhard Stahl)
• Book Reviews (Pierre Coustillas and Tatsuhiro Ohno)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Gissing's Pacifism: A Temperament in the Light of History (Pierre Coustillas)
• "She has brains, and doesn't belong to the vulgar": Constructing the Fallen Woman in Gissing's The Odd Women (William Davis)
• Bentley's Emancipated profit (Frederick Nesta)
• An Unknown Victorian Writer? Translating George Gissing into Spanish (Miguel Temprano Garcia)
• Book Review (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• 2007: Another Landmark in Gissing's Posthumous Life (Pierre Coustillas and Tony Petyt)
• The Admirable Kate Boughton: George Gissing's Housekeeper in Dorking (Markus Neacey)
• Gissing's Presentation Copies of his Works to Eduard Bertz: New Considerations and Fresh Confusions (Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Reviews (David Grylls and Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• For the Third International George Gissing Conference in March 2008

• How Poor Was George Gissing? A Study of Gissing's Income between 1877 and 1888 (Roger Milbrandt)
• Bleak House and The Imancipated (M. D. Allen)
• The Peregrinations of a Preston Traveller (Bouwe Postmus)
• The Gissings' Wakefield Circle: V - The Mackie Family (Anthony Petyt)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• George Gissing's Scrapbook, edited by Bouwe Postmus, now available (Bouwe Postmus)
• Mr. Baker and Miss Yule: Mass Literary and the Complexity of Reading and Writing in George Gissing's New Grub Street (Ryan Stephenson)
• "Feeble Idyllicism": Gissing's Critique of Oliver Twist and Ryecroft (M. D. Allen)
• The H. G. Wells Annual Conference
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Persian translation of New Grub Street, front cover of dust-jacket

• Bella Curtis: The Canadian Connection (Bouwe Postmus)
• Against the Modern: Rural Idylls and Urban Realities in George Gissing's Fiction (Lewis Moore)
• The Inimitable "Day of Silence" (Robert L. Selig)
• Edmund Widdowson and the Rev. John Todd's Student's Manual (M. D. Allen)
• Third International George Gissing Conference: Second Call for Papers
• Book Review (Pierre Coustillas)
• The H. G. Wells Annual Conference
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "A crazy idea . . . All gone off in smoke": George Gissing and Miss Curtis, Part Two, The Curtis Family (Markus Neacey)
• Third International George Gissing Conference: Call for Papers
• The Gissings' Wakefield Circle: IV - The Hick family (Anthoy Petyt)
• Book Reviews (Pierre Coustillas and John Sloan)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "The Muse of the Halls" (George Gissing)
• The Index to the Papers of Henry Ryecroft (Hazel Bell)
• The Gissings' Wakefield Circle II - The Milner Family (Anthoy Petyt)
• Book Reviews (William Greenslade, Pierre Coustillas, and Michael Cronin)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Escape from Marriage: A Gissing Theme (Robert L. Selig)
• Where "Affable Hawk" Stepped In, or How Desmond MacCarthy Roamed on Gissing's Trail for Over Three Decades (Pierre Coustillas)
• The Gissings' Wakefield Circle: I - The Benington and Binks Families (Anthoy Petyt)
• Book Reviews (Pierre Coustillas, Markus Neacey and R. Price)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• Gissing's Revision of Thyrza (David Grylls)
• Special Offer from Palgrave Macmillan
• Gissing's Literal Revenge and Jordan's Collected Silences in "The Prize Lodger" (Markus Neacey)
• Arthur Bowes Again (Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Reviews (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• George Gissing and America (Jacob Korg)
• Three Lancashire Advocates of Gissing (Pierre Coustillas)
• A New Italian Translation in Context (Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Reviews (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• The Text of Eve's Ransom: Insights from the Illustrated London News Serialization (Constance Harsh)
• For Flag and Fortune? The Colonial Edition, 1843-1972: A Gissing Perspective (John Spiers)
• Gissing Returns to Manchester
• Bibliographical Query
• Three Companions in One (Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Review (Bouwe Postmus)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• Bertziana in Victor Ottmann's Litterarisches Echo: The Rediscovery of a Rare File (Wulfhard Stahl)
• Gissing, Tolstoi and the Victorian Vegetarian Movement (Ayaka Komiya)
• Book Reviews (Bouwe Postmus, and Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• Eduard Bertz's Rugby, Tennessee (M. D. Allen)
• From Veranilda to The Private Life of Henry Maitland: The Correspondence between Clara Collet and Morley Roberts (fourth and last instalment) (Pierre Coustillas)
• Demos: A Review in The State (John Sloan and Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Reviews (Bouwe Postmus, Mitsuharu Matsuoka, and Christina Sjöholm)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• The Sharp Conference Welcomes Gissing: "Gissing in Translation," (Pierre Coustillas); "George Gissing and Libraries," (Chris Baggs); "George Gissing, International Copyright and Late Victorian Publishing," (Frederick N. Nesta)
• From Veranilda to The Private Life of Henry Maitland: The Correspondence between Clara Collet and Morley Roberts (third and penultimate instalment) (Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Reviews (Fumio Hojoh and Annika Juuso Savary)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• George Gissing (1857-1903): London's Restless Analyst (Richard Dennis)
• From Veranilda to The Private Life of Henry Maitland: The Correspondence between Clara Collet and Morley Roberts (second instalment) (Pierre Coustillas)
• Gissing and C. S. Lewis (Anthony Curtis)
• Book Review (Jacob Korg)
• Letter to the Editor
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• From Veranilda to The Private Life of Henry Maitland: The Correspondence between Clara Collet and Morley Roberts (Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Reviews (Marilyn B. Saveson, Jacob Korg, Bouwe Postmus and Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Gissing Commemorated in the Basque Country and Elsewhere (Pierre Coustillas)
• In Darkest London: George Gissing's The Nether World as Urban Novel (Kirsten Hertel)
• The Thyrza Contract and Two Unpublished Letters (Frederick N. Nesta)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• An Event, and History: The Gissing Centenary Conference (John Spiers)
• George Gissing's London Residences 1877-1891 (Robin Woolven)
• From "Phoebe's Fortune" to "Phoebe," by courtesy of George Bentley, Temple Bar's Hatchet Man (Barbara Rawlinson)
• George Gissing and Morley Roberts: The Life of Writing in Late-Victorian England (Lewis Moore)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "Misery of Miseries": Gissing and the Servant Question (Christina Sjöholm)
• Gissing's vision of Croton: De Quincey, Lenormant, Livy, and the Past Recaptured (Robert Selig)
• A Paisley Grocer and Two Paisley Poets (Bouwe Postmus)
• Gissing and Hornung: Their Relationship in Life and Death (Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Review: Am Ionischen Meer (Bouwe Postmus)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "The Grandfather's New Year's Story": An Unpublished Story from Gissing's Juvenilia (Barbara Rawlinson)
• "The Decently Ignoble - or, the Ignobly Decent?": George Gissing's Fictional Clerks (continued) (Jonathan Wild)
• Obituary: Alan Clodd (1918-2002) (Stephen Stuart-Smith)
• Alan Clodd: A Personal Recollection (Pierre Coustillas)
• Calabrian Update (Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Review (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "No more ardent admirer": James Cuthbert Hadden on George Gissing in the Wolverhampton Chronicle (John Sloan and Pierre Coustillas)
• "The Decently Ignoble - or, the Ignobly Decent?" George Gissing's Fictional Clerks (Jonathan Wild)
• A Note and a Query from T. W. Gissing (Bouwe Postmus)
• The Electronic Gissing: A Further Update (Peter Morton)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• The Cotsworld Connections of George and Algernon Gissing (Robin Woolven)
• A dedicated Cyclist: Algernon Gissing's Rural Rides (Bouwe Postmus)
• Gissing on the Air (Pierre Coustillas)
• Gissing and Calabria (Pierre Coustillas)
• In Memoriam: Sydney Frederick Lott, 1920-2002
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Mourning, Pleasure and the Aesthetic Ideal in The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (Kevin Swafford)
• The deadliest enemy of the poor? (Debbie Harrison)
• "Across the Bidassoa": A Forgotten Essay (Morley Roberts)
• Book Review (David Grylls)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece

• New George Gissing Letters at The New York Public Library (Jim Moske)
• "There's many a true word said in joke": Quixoticism in The Nether World (George Scott Christian)
• The Fiction of Class at the Fin de Siécle(Robert L. Selig)
• Gissing Interviewed and Remembered (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• George Gissing on Music: Italian Impressions (Allan W. Atlas)
• The Centenary Conference
• The Biographical-Critical Circle: "A lodger in Maze Pond" (Robert L. Selig)
• A Recently Discovered Essay on Gissing (Christina Sjöholm)
• A Greek Translation of Sleeping Fires: A Review (Michael Parfect)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "At Cemetery found a delightful guardian": The Crotone Gardener Identified (Teresa Liguori and Pierre Coustillas)
• Bohemia's Bo(a)rders: Queer-Friendly Gissing (Diana Maltz)
• Gissing and Railways (Sydney Lott)
• Morre on Gissing and the Theatre (Jacob Korg)
• Paul Mattheisen: 1925-2001
• Book Reviews (Renzo D'Agnillo)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Gissing's Triumphant Return to the Reading Room (Bouwe Postmus)
• Gissing and the Theatre: A Lucid Outlook on "the Drama in the Doldrums" (Pierre Coustillas)
• Money and Manhood: Gissing's Redefinition of Lower-Middle-Class Man (Arlene Young)
• Two Classes of Story: Literature and Class in Gissing's Demos (Christine DeVine)
• Book Reviews (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece: A Bargain

• Keeping One's Own Counsel: Authorship, Literary Advice and New Grub Street (Margot Stafford)
• An Upstart Odd Woman: "A Daughter of the Lodge" (Robert L. Selig)
• Of Ethics and Mess: Two Contributions to Gissing Studies (Jacob Korg)
• "The most delicately sensitive face I have ever seen": Coulson Kernahan's Reminiscences of Gissing (Pierre Coustillas)
• MLA Special Session on Gissing (Christine DeVine)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "A Hell Constructed by Man": Depictions of the Poor in The Nether World (Christine DeVine)
• The Dispossessed: A Consideration of George Gissing (Walter Allen, with an introduction by Anthony Curtis)
• Book Reviews (Karina Of)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Tailpiece (Joseph Conrad)

• Eustace Glazzard: The Schopenhauerian Dilemma (Janice Deledalle-Rhodes)
• Gissing's Worldly Parable: "The Foolish Virgin" (Robert L. Selig)
• Gissing and London's Music Halls (Sydney Lott)
• On the Latin of Gissing's Henry Ryecroft (Matthew Leigh)
• Book Reviews (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Compassion and Selfishness in Gissing's Slum Novels (Chérifa Krifa Mbarek)
• Gissing's Dreams and Realities, between Wives (Sydney Lott)
• "Catanzaro Judged by an English Journalist" (Pierre Coustillas)
• In Gissing's Footsteps to Magna Cræcia (Peter Morton)
• Other Book Reviews (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• The Grocer's Romance: Economic Transactions and Radical Individualism in Will Warburton (Luisa Villa)
• The Coming Man and the Will to Power in Born in Exile (Markus Neacey)
• Book Reviews (Marilyn B. Saveson, Raimund Schäffner, Michael Cronin and Wulfhard Stahl)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• The Darwinian influence on Gissing's In the Year of Jubilee (Christina Sjöholm)
• Gissing in Catanzaro: A Commemoration (P. Coustillas, D. Grylls, B. Postmus)
• Allusions to Gissing in the Complete Works of George Gissing (Peter Morton)
• "The Poet's Portmanteau": A Flirtation that Dares not Speak its Name (Robert L. Selig
• Gissing and the Crystal Palace (Sydney Lott)
• Book Review (Kazuo Mizokawa)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• The International George Gissing Conference: 9-11 September 1999 at Amsterdam (Martha S. Vogeler)
• Money as Language and Idea in George Gissing's Fiction (Lewis D. Moore)
• "The Man is a Born Artist": The Relationship between George Gissing and John Wood Shortridge (concluded) (Russell Price and Russel Price)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "The Man is a Born Artist": The Relationship between George Gissing and John Wood Shortridge (Pierre Coustillas and Russell Price)
• A Critique of Gissing (Jacob Korg)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "The Coming Man" and "La Cité Moderne" (Janice Deledalle-Rhodes)
• A Visit to Bee Bee (Anthony Curtis)
• Gissing's "Spellbound" and "New Grub Street" (Robert L. Selig)
• The Spade House that Gissing Knew (Sydney Lott)
• Drs. into Dr. (P. C.)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications
• Sonnet (Thomas Waller Gissing)

• Somatopsychic distress in the life and novels of George Gissing (Ian J. Deary)
• New Grub Street East (Richard Collins)
• Gissing Observed: Letters from William Rothenstein, A. H. Bullen and Mrs. Louise Chandler Mounton about him (Pierre Coustillas)
• A Gissing Collection for Sale (Pierre Coustillas)
• Douglas James Hallam, 1917-1998 (Anthony Petyt)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Lost Illusions and the Will to Die in New Grub Street (Markus Neacey)
• A Critical Enquiry into the Gissing Boom in Japan in the 1920s: The special Gissing Number of Eigo Kenkyu, Vol. 18 (1924), no. 8 (Masahiko Yahata)
• Greek Culture and Gissing's Journey to Greece (Maria Dimitriadou)
• Gissing and St. Sidwell (Sydney Lott)
• Book Reviews (Peter Morton and Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• "Thyrza": Gissing, Darwin and the Destinies of Innocence (Francesco Marroni)
• Notes on the Net (Peter Morton)
• "C'è novità: News from Calabria (Wulfhard Stahl)
• Eduard Bertz, Dead and Alive: an Announcement
• A Forgotten Review (Thomas Seccombe)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• Socialism and Conservatism in George Gissing's Workers in the Dawn and Demos (Raimund Schäffner)
• Monkshouse, Northumberland: Fact into Fiction (Bouwe Postmus)
• The Lamb House that Gissing Saw (Sydney Lott)
• Book Review (Jacob Korg)
• 1898: Three of Gissing's Books Discussed by Fellow Novelists (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• More of Gissing's "Indispensable" False Starts and Discarded Novels (Marilyn B. Saveson)
• The Hope of Pessimism and the Will to Live in "The Unclassed" (Markus Neacey)
• Walter Gissing: A Further Note (William Greenslade)
• More about Gissing and the Paparazzi (Francesco Badolato and Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Reviews (Fumio Hojoh, Janice Deledalle-Rhodes, Wulfhand Stahl, and Bouwe Postmus)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

• The Forthcoming Gissing Conference: First Announcement (B. P. Postmus)
• George Gissing, Henry James and the Concept of Realism (Janice Deledalle-Rhodes)
• Gissing and the Paparazzi (Francesco Badolato and Pierre Coustillas)
• "Far, Far Away": George Gissing's Passion for the Classics (Ayaka Okada)
• Book Review (William Greenslade)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

Vol. XXXIII, No. 3 (July, 1997)

• Isabel Clarendon: Hearts Made Sepulchres (Michael Cronin)
• The Boston Evening Transcript's Reception of George Gissing's Works (Bonnie Zane and Pierre Coustillas)
• Gissing and Virgil: a note (Bouwe Postmus)
• Book Review (Pierre Coustillas)

Vol. XXXIII, No. 2 (April, 1997)

• Devil's Advocate: George Gissing's Approach to the Woman Question (Barbara Rawlinson)
• Negotiating "The Whirlpool" (Simon James)
• "Hapless flies caught in a huge web?" More about Gissing resources on the Internet (Peter Morton)
• Book Review (William Greenslade)

Vol. XXXIII, No. 1 (April, 1997)

• In the Year of Jubilee and American Grundyism (Christina Sjöholm)
• Gissing's Introduction to the Autograph Edition to David Copperfield
• Travel and Writing: George Gissing Ideological Journey in Italy (Annarita Del Nobile)
• Gissing and the Betjeman Circle (Anthony Curtis)
• Gissing in D. H. Lawrence's Letters (Jacob Korg)
• Thyrza's Eastbourne (Sydney Lott)
• Book Review (Pierre Coustillas)

Vol. XXXII, No. 4 (October, 1996)

• Gissing's Born in Exile and Théodule-Armand Ribot's L'hérédité psychologique (Robert L. Selig)
• Gissing in Prison (Paul Delany)
• A Letter from the Western Avernus: Morley Roberts to his sister Ida (Pierre Coustillas)
• The Paying Guest and the Praise it Won in 1896 (Pierre Coustillas)
• Thirty Letters about Gissing to be Rescued from Oblivion
• Gissing on the Internet (Jacob Korg)
• Book Review (Pierre Coustillas)

Vol. XXXII, No. 3 (July, 1996)

• Riches in a Little Room: Ethel Wheeler's Appreciation of Gissing (Bouwe Postmus)
• Walter Leonard Gissing (1891-1916): An Anniversary (Pierre Coustillas)
• Eduard Berz and Sie raden wie ein Mann, Madame (Markus Neacey)
• Book Review (William Greenslade and Pierre Coustillas)

Vol. XXXII, No. 2 (April, 1996)

• A Distinguished Acquaintance of Gissing's at Ciboure: Arthur Brownlow Fforde (Pierre Coustillas)
• Between Emancipation and Restraint--Reading the Body in The Odd Women (Hihoko Takeda)
• Shan F. Bullock: Gissing's Admirer and an Ingenious Short Story Writer (Masahiko Yahata)
• A Forgotten Assessment of Veranilda (Randolph Faries, 2d)
• Gissing in the Boston Evening Transcript: His Interview by Joseph Anderson(Pierre Coustillas)
• Book Review (John Sloan)

Vol. XXXII, No. 1 (January, 1996)

• Editors of Gissing Letters Win MLA Award (Martha S. Vogeler)
• Eduard Berz's Correspondence with Macmillan & Co. 1884-1908 (Wulfhard Stahl)
• Gissing's 1897 Stay at Budleigh Salterton: A Topographical Enquiry (Pierre Coustillas and Garry Randoll)
• Addenda and Corrigenda to Walter Grünzweig's Article "Adulation and Paranoia" (Wulfhard Stahl)
• Book Review (David Grylls and Pierre Coustillas)

Vol. XXXI, No. 4 (October, 1995)

• Clara Collet's Clairvoyance (Bouwe Postmus)
• Scattered Critical Responses to Gissing in Four Chicago Papers (Robert L. Selig)
• An Eerie Incident in Gissing's Life (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (July, 1995)

• You Have not Dunne 'Til you Have Donne: The Story of Gissing and B. B. Dunne (Paul F. Mattheisen)
• "The Salt of the Earth" and the Ethics of Self-Denial (Emanuel Ettorre)
• A Hundred Years Ago: The Dinner at the Burford Bridge Hotel on 13 July 1895
• Book Review (Pierre Coustillas)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

Vol. XXXI, No. 2 (April, 1995)

• The Unclassed in The Odd Women (Michael Cronin)
• An Uphill, Unrewarding Struggle: The Letters of Algernon Gissing to James B. Pinker (Pierre Coustillas)
• Pathos and Patience: "The Light on the Tower" and "The Schoolmaster's Vision" (Masahiko Yahata)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications

Vol. XXXI, No. 1 (January, 1995)

• Mr Harmsworth's Blue Pencil: "Simple Simon" Revisited (Bouwe Postmus)
• T. W. Gissing and Algernon Gissing in the "O.E.D." (John Simpson)
• The Critical Response to Gissing in the Chicago Trivune (Robert L. Selig and Pierre Coustillas)
• The 1894 Booker Prize (Pierre Coustillas)
• Review (David Grylls)
• Notes and News
• Recent Publications