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19/10/202420/10/2024

Escaping Realism: Harold Biffen in ‘New Grub Street’

George Gissing’s ‘New Grub Street’ is a fascinating work about the life of several writers in the cut-throat journalism industry of Victorian England. Here, I take a look at the startling heroics of one character, whose admirable moment of fearlessness questions everything he had stood for up to that point.

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