Issn 0017-0615 the Gissing Newsletter
ISSN 0017-0615 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 XX, Number 3 July, 1984 ********************************** -- 1 -- “Mr. Gissing Has Everything He Requires” A Centenary Vignette of a Holiday in the Lake District Martha S. Vogeler Albert R. Vogeler California State University, Fullerton In his fictionalized biography of George Gissing, Morley Roberts has him write in Wordsworthian terms towards the end of his largely unhappy life that he felt “a little oppressed by ‘the burden of the mystery,’” and often thought “with deep content of the time when speculation will be at an end.” But he added that he still found “delight in the beauty of the visible world,” and ************************************************* 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: £3.00 per annum Libraries: £15.00 per annum ************************************************* -- 2 -- in literature.1 These pleasures were uniquely combined for the real George Gissing during a fortnight’s stay in Wordsworth’s own region of England almost exactly a hundred years ago. One of the best things about that pleasant interlude was that he did not have to plan it himself – nor pay for it. He was always reluctant to devise any prolonged relief from his burden of work, and at that stage in his life he could not have afforded such a holiday at his own expense.
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