THE GISSING NEWSLETTER “More Than Most Men Am I Dependent on Sympathy to Bring out the Best That Is in Me.”
THE GISSING NEWSLETTER “More than most men am I dependent on sympathy to bring out the best that is in me.” – George Gissing’s Commonplace Book. ********************************** Volume XV, Number 2 April, 1979 ********************************** -- 1 -- The Gissing Fund Kate Taylor Wakefield [Although Miss Taylor’s name has for some years been familiar to the readers of the Newsletter, which has on many occasions listed articles from her pen printed in the Wakefield Express, a word of introduction may not be irrelevant. A teacher, a journalist and a local historian, she has, of Wakefield past and present, a knowledge which few people in her own city can boast. Her two volumes on the Wakefield District Heritage (1976 and 1979), quartos of 148 and 152 pages respectively, give but a faint, though most attractive idea, of her manifold activities. She has, with other Wakefield friends, devoted considerable time and energy to the promotion of Gissing’s ************************************************* Editorial Board Pierre Coustillas, Editor, University of Lille Shigeru Koike, Tokyo Metropolitan University Jacob Korg, University of Washington, Seattle Editorial correspondence should be sent to the editor: 10, rue Gay-Lussac, 59110-La Madeleine, France, and all other correspondence to: C. C. KOHLER, 12, Horsham Road, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 2JL, England. Subscriptions Private Subscribers: £1.50 per annum Libraries: £3.00 per annum ************************************************* -- 2 -- posthumons interests not only locally, but in the whole
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