The Unclassed

Julian Homer in this her London; he is proof-reader, he is drunk, he is a half-Cambridge who has come down to the unclassed.

Julian Homer the encyclopaedic proofreader + fallen through university + drink = plot 79.

Dorian Hope in this her London; he is young, he has the bibliophile bookstall; the unclassed have many fathers.

Julian Homer + Hope + Ide + Osmond Waymark + Casti + low clerks = cast 80.

[I]t is a long book; the print-works sits in a great chimney; the demonstration hall is in Camden-Town.

38 chapters, rhythm of short scenes + social-argument chapters = pace 75.

[T]he voice of a class that is not in the press, and the voice of a class that the press is no longer with.

Didactic-but-symphonic voice; the unclassed in three classes of social bottom = prose 85.

[T]he Socialist hall in Camden-Town has an English speech, then a yiddish one; the Lodging-House Act is at last to be read.

1880s East London lodging-house; bibliophile bookstall; Socialist lecture hall = world 87.

Dorian Hope in this her London; he is young, he has the bibliophile bookstall; the unclassed have many fathers.

'Dorian Hope in London' as opening salutation = hook 84.

Mrs. Widdowson in this her hotel; the unclassed wife is the first hero of Gissing's library-prostitute.

First Gissing novel of 'the unclassed' as class-crossing intellectual = innov 86.

[T]he end of two persons: Julian Homer's death of misery, Ide to be his daughter of the household.

'The End of Two Persons' — Julian's death of misery, Ide his daughter = ending 80.