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Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

By Edmund Gosse

2020-06-05 14:40:49

Father and Son (1907) 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. The book describes Edmund's early yea ... Read more
Father and Son (1907) 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. The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who died early and painfully of breast cancer, was a writer of Christian tracts. His father, Philip Henry Gosse, was an influential, though largely self-taught, invertebrate zoologist and student of marine biology who, after his wife's death, took Edmund to live in Devon. The book focuses on the relationship between a sternly religious father who rejects the new evolutionary theories of his scientific colleague Charles Darwin and the son's gradual coming of age and rejection of his father's fundamentalist religion. Less

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File size220.537 KB
Print pages158
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1611044560
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Edmund Gosse
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Sir Edmund William Gosse CB (21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author, and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sh...

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