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wrote a preface for "A Victim of Circumstances" by George Gissing (Constable and Dutton, 1927), a collection of his father's short stories, and he edited a compendium of his father's work, "Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of George Gissing" (Jonathan Cape, 1929).He later moved with his sole surviving aunt Ellen to Croft Cottage, Barbon, where he lived until the end of the Second World War.In his own right, Alfred Gissing wrote biographies.