In the Year of Jubilee

Miss Lord Of Camberwell "Miss Lord of Camberwel" was Gissing's original title for this 1894 novel until his publisher persuaded him to use "In the Year of Jubilee" instead. George Gissing (1857 -- 1903) was a late Victorian novelist who remains relatively unknown. Among other things, his book are dis......more

Later Victorian novels can be so refreshingly bleak. Set in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and in several years that follow, The Year of the Jubilee follows an interconnected set of middle class characters in London. Despite the urban setting, it’s small world reminiscent of Jane......more

There was one plot point I saw from a mile away, but other than that, another entertaining novel by George Gissing.......more

Having enjoyed the writing of Gissing in the past I was bowled over to see a Gissing classic I had not already read! What a find. Each page captures the interest of the reader immediately. The characters are so well written and the first few pages are an amazing approach to scene construction. The l......more

A really good early work. Gissing presents his story in an England where the middle class is indifferent to the monarch's anniversary, the working class use it merely as an excuse to get drunk and the police stewarding of the crowds is an opportunity for gratuitous violence. As England stands on the......more