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It is likely that Orwell borrowed the first name of his pseudonym from Gissing.  Orwell, though, chose to live among the poor to begin a lifelong commitment to leftist politics.  Gissing became poor by bad luck and bad judgement; he came to believe that political solutions were unlikely to abolish human misery, and declared that the great subject of his novels was the situation of educated people with 'not enough money.' Paul Delany's has read Gissing's 22 novels, and his other works, with a fine biographer's eye.  Gissing was a neurotic writer, and everything in his later life was determined by the twin disasters of his imprisonment and his marriage to Nell Harrison.  Prison he concealed altogether. It could be argued that Victorian society rested on hypocrisy, requiring everyone to lie about their desires.  But the major figures in Gissing's novels are almost always bad liars.  In his own case a mistake in youth created daily misery that he could never shake off.  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