Publisher's Synopsis
George Gissing was a prominent English writer during the Victorian era. Gissing was a very prolific author and his popularity grew after his death in 1903. Gissing's best known novels are New Grub Street, The Nether World, and The Odd Women. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, published in 1903, is a semi-autobiographical novel in which Gissing is the editor of a deceased friend's diary.
