George Gissing
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
George Robert Gissing (22 november 1857 – 28 december 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. In the 1890s he was considered one of the three greatest novelists in England, and by the 1940s he had been recognised as a literary genius. Gissing's best-known works have reappeared in modern editions. They include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893). He retains a small but devoted group of followers.
Conan Doyle and George Gissing
In april 1898, George Gissing, Ernest W. Hornung, Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells were in Rome, Italy :
Conan Doyle about George Gissing
- Dr. Conan Doyle on Modern Novelists (1893)
- Facts About Fiction (1893)
- The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (1921)
- Old Offenders and a Few Old Scores (1923)
- Memories and Adventures (1923-1924) :
- « I have always had my doubts as to those elaborate forecasts of the future in which Wells indulges. He has, it is true, made a couple of good shots which have already materialized in the tanks and in the machine which would deliver news in our own houses. But he has never shown any perception of the true meaning of the psychic, and for want of it his history of the world, elaborate and remarkable as it was, seemed to me to be a body without a soul. However, this also may be given him, and it will make his equipment complete. I remember discussing the matter with him, when George Gissing, Hornung, he and I foregathered in Rome early in this century, but apparently my words had no effect. »
