The complete online text of Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse.

Edmund Gosse began his long literary career hoping to make his mark as a poet; but, although a small collection of poems, On Viol and Flute (1873), won the approval of some distinguished critics, it was as the first English translator of the plays and po...

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 in the literary world and developed warm, intellectuall...

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. Eliot reviewed Evan Charteris's The Life and Letters o...

It's the third spring since our rebirth as Whole Earth magazine; wisteria drooping glamorously from the native oak, warblers gone upland to court and mate and lay some eggs. Stewart Brand and his (rife Ryan called at midnight on their cell phone to...

The Embassy Row residence that belonged to the late Marshall B. Coyne, an art collector and Washington developer, is on the market for $5.5 million. The Kalorama house, with more than 10,000 square feet of space, has seven bedrooms, 9 1/2 bathrooms and...