Gossip in a Library Summary
Edmund Gosse

INTRODUCTORY It is curious to reflect that the library, in our customary sense, is quite a modern institution.  Three hundred years ago there were no public libraries in Europe.  The Ambrosi... Read more

Edmund Gosse's present reputation, at least outside the scholarly community, rests on his autobiography, Father and Son (1907). This was not always so. In 1931, three years after Gosse's death, T. S. ... Read more

Edmund William Gosse was one of the key literary and intellectual figures of English life from the latter part of the nineteenth century until his death in 1928. It appears that Gosse knew everybody i... Read more