Thyrza

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Walter Sickert, Gwen John and Luke Fildes. Lambeth: a hat-maker's workgirl with a beautiful voice, the working-man idealist engaged to her, and the rich young man who comes south of the river to educate the poor and falls in love instead. Gissing's academic career ended at eighteen when he was caught stealing to support a young prostitute he mar...