The Unclassed

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Walter Sickert, John Constable and Luke Fildes. A schoolmaster, a slum landlord's daughter, and a woman who has been on the streets — three people outside every class the age recognised, trying to make lives that do not fit the categories. Gissing's academic career ended at eighteen when he was caught stealing to support a young prostitute he th...