The editor, Debbie Harrison, would like to draw attention to errors in the main text of Workers in the Dawn, three of which slipped through from the original 1880 Remington edition. We understand that optical imaging problems arose at the scanning stage, when minor blemishes on the manuscript led to the corruption of punctuation marks and confusion between certain letters, for example ‘b’ and ‘h’, double ‘r’ and ‘m’, and ‘a’ and ‘e’. Naturally the editor and publisher will take steps to ensure this problem does not affect Demos, the next novel in this series dedicated to Gissing’s early work.
As Workers in the Dawn is a ‘print on demand’ title, the corrections have been made with effect from 15/03/2010 but we list them here for readers who purchased an earlier copy.
P. 211, last line, ‘choose’ for chose
P. 272, lines 3 and 26, ‘confidant’ for confident; line 37, ‘here’ for her
P. 281, line 39, ‘bettering’ for battering
P. 333, line 6, ‘screeched’ for screached
P. 341, line 17, arms for ‘arras’
P. 356, line 3, ‘indignation’ for indigo-nation
P. 501, line 38, ‘stern’ for stem; ditto p. 574, penultimate line
P. 525, line 16, ‘hother’ [ie cockney for ‘other’] for bother
P. 533, line 36, ‘heard’ for beard
End notes
n.10: Genesis 34.18
n. 170: Chapter 44
n. 124: some but not all Caliphs claimed to be descended from Muhammad
We are very grateful to Professor Malcolm Allen of the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley for reviewing the book so attentively and bringing these errors to our attention.