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In the Year of Jubilee

Author
George Gissing
Read by
Amara Wrenn
Language
English
Length
12 hours 54 minutes
ISBN
9781802566604
Published
1 June 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • George Gissing
  • life
  • Victorian
  • family
  • relationship
  • romance
  • norms
  • rules
  • satire
  • humour

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Description

Queen’s year, London suburbs, a woman who wants more than the street allows. Gissing’s In the Year of Jubilee is class, sex, education, the new city. Ambition in a rented piano’s reach. Flags in the street, a secret marriage, a woman writing her way toward air. Gissing’s London of clerks and daughters, where respectability is a tighter room than poverty. Nancy Lord’s secret marriage, flags in the street, a suburb that wants her quiet while she writes toward air. Read in English, unabridged.

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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