Writers Like George Gissing Paint Pictures with Words Much of his novel, ‘A Life’s Morning’, is set in Dunfield, a town which bears a remarkable similarity to his childhood home of Wakefield, and he describes…
Wakefield Historical Society was one of the partners with Wakefield Civic Society and Wakefield Council when the Gissing Trust was set up in 1978 and the Gissing Centre in Thompson’s Yard Westgate, was established in…
Wakefield Historical Society is delighted to hear that George Gissing will be commemorated on a blue plaque in Exeter. A contact from Exeter Civic Society writes: “I know that George Gissing is already commemorated with…
You may not, this summer, be able to visit the Gissing Centre in Wakefield, (the childhood home of renowned Victorian novelist George Gissing) but you may have time to enjoy a ‘Readalong” of his novel “The…