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A prodigal son brought to book
From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20071117
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They needed a nudge, but they got there in the end. Next week, Wakefield council is to mark the anniversary of a local man made good - and bad. Paul Routledge gives chapter and verse
Not exactly culture vultures, the city fathers of Wakefield.
A hundred and fifty years ago, their most famous literary son, novelist George Gissing, was born above a chemist's shop in Westgate.
Who cares? Gissing's birthplace, made into a literary shrine to his memory, once had the unhappy title of Britain's least-visited museum.
Gissing's anniversary would have gone unnoticed and uncelebrated if I hadn't rung the ...
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