Life's Morning

Edward Dodd in this her parish; the unbeneficed curate, the poor parson, in the little streets of the great city.

Edward Dodd the unbeneficed curate + forced marriage + Christian working-class awakening = plot 79.

Mrs Hood in this her dyer's widowhood; the new-comers in the curate's parish, in the little streets.

Edward Dodd the curate + Mrs Hood + the curate's niece + the schoolmaster + the working man = cast 80.

[T]he schoolmaster in this her working man's schoolroom; the curate walks slowly.

30 chapters, quieter register = pace 78.

Edward Dodd in this her parish; the unbeneficed curate, the poor parson, in the little streets of the great city.

Late-Gissing subdued Christian rhetoric; the working-class chapel and the curate = prose 86.

[T]he new-comers in the curate's parish, in the little streets; the working man's chapel.

1880s provincial Christian class; chapel and parish and the working man = world 85.

Edward Dodd in this her parish; the unbeneficed curate, the poor parson, in the little streets of the great city.

'Poor Parson!' as opening salutation = hook 84.

[T]he schoolmaster in this her working man's schoolroom; the curate walks slowly.

Late Gissing's first novel of working-class chapel; the curate as protagonist = innov 82.

[A] class of faith rethought; the curate and the working man awake to the new time.

'An Awakening' — class of faith rethought by both curate and labourer = ending 80.