Edmund Gosse Father And Son

His mother who died early and painfully of breast cancer was a writer of christian tracts.

Edmund gosse father and son. In this autobiography gosse details his happy early years which consisted of family holidays to devon and its picturesque countryside and coastline. Father and son is poet and literary critic edmund gosse s memoir regarding his formative years growing up in a devout protestant household of the plymouth brethren movement. Edmund gosse outlined a strict if not bleak upbringing in a plymouth brethren home in the midst of the nineteenth century by his two intellectually gifted parents emily and philip henry gosse. Father and son is a memoir by poet and critic edmund gosse which he subtitled a study of two temperaments edmund had previously published a biography of his father originally published anonymously.

In chapters 3 and 4 gosse presents events of his seventh year chief among them his mother s death. Sir edmund william gosse cb was an english poet author and critic now primarily remembered for his classic memoir father and son 1907 detailing his difficult childhood in a religiously fanatical home. An important and influential critic in his day gosse as a critic essayist and correspondent is still very much worth reading today. Edmund gosse father and son edmund gosse s uniquely frank memoir of a victorian childhood starring derek jacobi.

His mother who dies early and painfully of breast cancer is a writer of christian tracts. His father philip henry gosse is an influential though largely self taught invertebrate zoologist and student of marine biology who after his wife s death takes edmund to live in devon. His father philip henry gosse was an influential though largely self taught invertebrate zoologist and studen. Episodes 0 available there are no episodes available at the moment subscribe to.

His mother wrote religious pamphlets and his father was a famous naturalist who was unable to accept darwin s theory of natural selection.