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The femmes fatales ; George Gissing: A Life by Paul Delany ( Weidenfeld, Pounds 25 )

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20080310
Author:DAVID SEXTON

ANYBODY who thinks that relations between the sexes are unprecedentedly troubled today should make a little study of the life of the novelist George Gissing. It's an eye-opener.

Gissing, "one of the cleverest and most learned of English writers", as Delany says, was born in Wakefield in Yorkshire on 22 November 1857. He was the eldest son of a self-made man, a pharmacist, and was always a brilliant student.

In 1872, he entered the redbrick university Owens College in Manchester and quickly picked up all the prizes. Then, while still a teenager, the great disaster of his life struck, an event ...

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