Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she falls in love with a rich Oxford student who has no idea what to do with his life. The man, in turn, falls in love with her in return, but the path to happiness is complicated.

Genre(s): Romance, Published 1800 -1900

George Gissing (1857 - 1903)