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28. Juli 2021 · Edmund William Gosse (b. 1849–d. 1928) was the preeminent man of letters during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Although he worked in several genres—as poet, playwright, biographer, essayist, critic, literary historian, and bibliophile—the modernist contempt for all things Victorian meant that Gosse’s wider oeuvre fell into ...
Edmund William Gosse (født 21. september 1849 i London, død 16. maj 1928) var en engelsk digter og kritiker, søn af Philip Henry Gosse . Gosse fik sin opdragelse i Devonshire og blev 1869 ansat ved biblioteket i British Museum, men flyttedes 1875 herfra til Handelsministeriet som translatør. 1872 og 1874 foretog han rejser i Skandinavien ...
1,029 ratings130 reviews. Edmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, "This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs." Father and Son remains one of English literature's seminal autobiographies. In it, Edmund Gosse recounts, with humor and pathos, his childhood.
Edmund Gosse has 671 books on Goodreads with 62270 ratings. Edmund Gosse’s most popular book is Father and Son.
Edmund Gosse's father was a self-taught marine biologist and his mother, a poet and illustrator, but the center of their lives was their fundamentalist faith. They were Plymouth Brethren and were devoted to this fundamentalist Christian sect. Edmund was their only child and this is how he describes their life together: "For over three years after their marriage, neither of my parents left ...
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Edmund Gosse’s father, Philip Henry Gosse, published A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica in 1851 and two years later helped establish at Regent’s Park the first public aquarium. While working in the library of the British Museum in 1870, Edmund published his poems in the book Madrigals, Songs, and Sonnets; only twelve of the 140 printed copies sold, but the ones he gave out
25. Juni 2017 · 43. Edmund Gosse - Father and Son. June 25, 2017. Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent, joins John and Andy on the Backlisted podcast to discuss Edmund Gosse's account of growing up the son of a widowed Victorian fundementalist preacher. The trio also talk about Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley William s, and Spanish Crossings ...
