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    Gossip in a Library, by Edmund Gosse
    Gossip in a Library, by Edmund Gosse
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    Ongoing, First published Nov 04, 2017
    Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) was a prominent critic of art and literature in the late 19th Century. His father was a naturalist and was deeply committed to a small Puritanical sect, the Plymouth Brethren. His childhood was initially happy as they spent their summers in Devon where his father was developing the ideas which gave rise to the craze for the marine aquarium. After his mother died when he was eight they moved to Devon permanently. His life with his father became increasingly strained by his father's expectations that he should follow in his religious tradition. Gosse was sent to a boarding school where he began to develop his own interests in literature. He later gave an account of his childhood in the book Father and Son which has been described as the first psychological biography. At the age of 18 and working in the British Museum in London, he broke away from his father's influence.
        His accomplishments include translating Ibsen into English for the first time, and becoming one of England's leading art critics, specialising in sculpture. He taught literature at Cambridge. Later, he became the librarian of the House of Lords. He was also a collector of rare books himself, and Gossip in a Library consists of a series of reviews, some adulatory, others quite scathing, of some of his favourites. A few of them are already in our collection; others will be added in the future. Most are available as page scans in various places in the World Wide Web - see the list at the end of the book.
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    Table of contentsLast updated Feb 12, 2018
    • Epigraph
    • INTRODUCTORY
    • CAMDEN'S "BRITANNIA"
    • A MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES
    • A POET IN PRISON
    • DEATH'S DUEL
    • GERARD'S HERBAL
    • PHARAMOND
    • A VOLUME OF OLD PLAYS
    • A CENSOR OF POETS
    • THE ROMANCE OF A DICTIONARY
    • LADY WINCHILSEA'S POEMS
    • AMASIA
    • LOVE AND BUSINESS
    • WHAT ANN LANG READ
    • CATS
    • SMART'S POEMS
    • POMPEY THE LITTLE
    • THE LIFE OF JOHN BUNCLE
    • BEAU NASH
    • THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
    • THE DIARY OF A LOVER OF LITERATURE
    • PETER BELL AND HIS TORMENTORS
    • THE FANCY
    • ULTRA-CREPIDARIUS
    • THE DUKE OF RUTLAND'S POEMS
    • IONICA
    • THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT

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    • Epigraph
    • INTRODUCTORY
    • CAMDEN'S "BRITANNIA"
    • A MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES
    • A POET IN PRISON
    • DEATH'S DUEL
    • GERARD'S HERBAL
    • PHARAMOND
    • A VOLUME OF OLD PLAYS
    • A CENSOR OF POETS
    • THE ROMANCE OF A DICTIONARY
    • LADY WINCHILSEA'S POEMS
    • AMASIA
    • LOVE AND BUSINESS
    • WHAT ANN LANG READ
    • CATS
    • SMART'S POEMS
    • POMPEY THE LITTLE
    • THE LIFE OF JOHN BUNCLE
    • BEAU NASH
    • THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
    • THE DIARY OF A LOVER OF LITERATURE
    • PETER BELL AND HIS TORMENTORS
    • THE FANCY
    • ULTRA-CREPIDARIUS
    • THE DUKE OF RUTLAND'S POEMS
    • IONICA
    • THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT
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