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...
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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. ...
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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 w...
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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...
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Gossip in a Library
Edmund (William) Gosse