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The Ghost of Thanksgiving Past
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(In 1953 a young man climbed the crooked steps of the Paris
Herald Tribune building on the Rue de Berri and submitted an article
on "Explaining Thanksgiving Day to the French." The editor said,
"I'll give you $10 for it." In disgust, the youth took back the
manuscript and, instead of pursuing a career in journalism, went into
city planning for Detroit. He was never heard from again.)
One of our most important holidays is Thanksgiving Day, known in
France as "le Jour de Merci Donnant."
"Le Jour de Merci Donnant" was first started by a group of
Pilgrims (Pe`lerins) who fled from ...
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Remembering George Gissing.
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; ...was born in 1903, the year of George Gissing's death, noted that most of...very few better novelists." Yet George Gissing (1857-1903) is unknown to...especially to admire the writings of George Gissing." His friend the critic Morley...
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The Collected Letters of George Gissing, Volume 1, 1863-1880.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; ...Collected Letters of George Gissing, Volume 1, 1863-1880...edition of the letters of George Gissing now makes a distinguished...not extant. Neither Gissing's replies to William nor Algernon's replies to George (with one exception...
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Collected Works of George Gissing on Charles Dickens.(Collected Works of George Gissing on Charles Dickens: Essays, Introductions and Reviews, vol. 1)(Charles Dickens: A Critical Study, vol. 2)(Abridgement of Forster's Life of Dickens, vol. 3)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Dickens Quarterly
; Collected Works of George Gissing on Charles Dickens...sterling] or $75.00. George Gissing entered the lists as...pushed so strenuously by George Eliot and G. H. Lewes...now to ask ourselves, Gissing reminds readers, "in...
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The Collected Letters of George Gissing, Volume 5, 1892-1895.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; ...Collected Letters of George Gissing, Volume 5, 1892-1895...references to his household. Gissing must have felt an additional...younger brother. While George was receiving increasingly...Stars. In 1893 we find Gissing telling Ellen and Bertz...
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The Collected Letters of George Gissing.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; The Collected Letters of George Gissing, Vol. 2: 1881-1885, ed. Paul...00 cloth. The second volume of Gissing's Collected Letters illuminates...bowdlerized selection brought out by Gissing's family in 1927, and various...
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The Collected Letters of George Gissing.(Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel
; ...eds. The Collected Letters of George Gissing (Athens: Ohio University Press...sake of immediate profit." So George Gissing at age 37 wrote to his literary...time in The Collected Letters of George Gissing, edited jointly by Paul F. Mattheisen...
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George Gissing on music: Italian impressions
Magazine article from: Musical Times
; George Gissing on music ALLAN W. ATLAS tracks the musical encounters of the distinguished late-Victorian novelist THE LATE-VICTORIAN novelist George Gissing (1857-1903) - best known today for New Grub Street (1891), The...
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The Collected Letters of George Gissing, Vol. 3: 1886-1888, & Vol. 4: 1889-1891.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; The Collected Letters of George Gissing, Vol. 3: 1886-1888, &...white and perfect as formerly" [George Gissing, London and the Lift of Literature...Victorian England: The Diary of George Gissing, Novelist, ed. Pierre Coustillas...
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"All she knew was, that she wished to live": late-Victorian realism, liberal-feminist ideals, and George Gissing's In the Year of the Jubilee.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel
; ...of In the Year of the Jubilee, George Gissing's 1894 novel about a young...her independence, discussion of Gissing's representation of woman' s...this novel more often focuses on Gissing's satire of middle-class life...
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The femmes fatales ; George Gissing: A Life by Paul Delany ( Weidenfeld, Pounds 25 )
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...a little study of the life of the novelist George Gissing. It's an eye-opener. Gissing, "one of the cleverest and most learned of...within his first few pages. In January 1876, Gissing met a 17-year-old prostitute called Nell...
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