The premise of the novel is drawn from Gissing's own early life — an intellectually superior man born into a socially inferior milieu, though the story arc diverges significantly from the actuality.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Louisa May Alcott, Golden Deer Classics, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Gissing, Kate Chopin, Roquia Sakhawat Hussain & Edith Wharton
