In the Year of Jubilee
In the Year of Jubilee,a novel by George Gissing , published in three volumes in 1894 by Lawrence and Bullen , and in a censored version by Appleton in the USA in 1895 . The novel tells the story of a group of young upper- and lower-middle-class people at the time of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. The superficially educated Nancy Lord falls in love with Lionel Tarrant; after a sexual encounter in a seaside resort, they have to marry. Nancy's father dies before learning of their marriage, leaving a will that prohibits Nancy from marrying before she is 30. Lionel's inheritance also disappears; after separation, hardship, estrangement, and disinheritance, the Tarrants are happily reconciled, but live separately in London. Gissing's heavy irony condemns, but is resigned to, the emergent mass culture portrayed in the novel.
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