In George Gissing's 'New Grub Street', what is the name of the struggling novelist?

In George Gissing's New Grub Street, the struggling novelist is Edwin Reardon. He is a talented but commercially unsuccessful writer whose artistic standards clash with the publishing market of late-Victorian London.

Reardon once earns praise for his novel On Neutral Ground, but he then suffers an extended failure of inspiration and cannot produce another book to support his wife, Amy, and their child. His poverty and writer's block place severe pressure on his marriage. When he attempts a more commercial novel as a last resort, the effort fails, deepening his crisis.

The novel was published in 1891 and contrasts Reardon's ideals with the career strategy of Jasper Milvain, an ambitious journalist who understands how to profit from popular periodicals and social connections. Harold Biffen is another impoverished writer in the book, which can cause confusion, but Reardon is the character commonly identified as the struggling novelist. Marian Yule is a reader and researcher, not the novelist at the centre of the question.