What George Gissing’s fiction reveals about vegetarianism in Victorian London
George Gissing (1857–1903) is best known for his unflinching representations of Victorian society, portraying the struggles of the burgeoning middle classes and the perils of social mobility. But amid the novelist’s keen observations of late 19th-century London, Gissing explored a topic that was gaining cultural momentum at the time –…
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