A Life's Morning

Name: A Life's Morning
Author: George Gissing
ISBN: 9781911263609

Author: George Gissing
Series: Timeless Classics
Language: English
Length: 642 pages
ISBN: 9781911263609
Published: 15 April 2016
Imprint: Sovereign

George Gissing
life
betrayal
freedom
Victorian
family
relationship
romance
norms
rules

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Description

A cultivated poor young woman Emily Hood from a small town in the north of England works as a governess in a wealthy country family. She falls in love with her employer's son, Wilfrid Athel, and the two are engaged. However, during a visit to her parents' home, she is confronted by her father's employer, Dagworthy, who threatens to expose her father as a thief unless Emily marries him.

Author

George Gissing (1857–1903) was the most unflinching realist of late Victorian England — a novelist who wrote what others preferred not to see. In New Grub Street he exposed the bitter economics of literary life: talent ground down by poverty, compromise, and the market. The Nether World, Born in Exile, and The Odd Women extended that clear-eyed vision to slum existence, intellectual exile, and the precarious lives of unmarried women.

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