APS TOGETHER
Day 8
New Grub Street by George GissingChapter 8
November 13, 2023 by Yiyun Li
“Hinks made perhaps a hundred a year out of a kind of writing which only certain publishers can get rid of…”
One refreshing view of this novel is that we get to see many struggling writers; every one of them is introduced with how much money they can make by their pens.
Marian’s dream of a “Literary Machine”: Gissing was prophetic in showing how much the men in the past thought through what the future writers would be living with.
Another refreshing element of the novel is to get to know Marian Yule, Dora and Maud Milvain. Literary history is not all about Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.
