A Son and His Father: Edmund Gosse’s Comments and Portraits, 1875-1910

Abstract

How many still recall Francis Gribble’s edition of the Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt or the recollections of Lord Wantage, V.C., K.C.B., “By His Wife”? Sir James Graham, Baronet of Netherby’s Life and Letters of Charles S. Parker, or W.F. Lonergan’s Forty Years of Paris, D.D. Tulloch’s Life of Tom Morris, or Thomas Ward’s Rambles of an Australian Naturalist? Not many outside of the world of the specialist would likely say they are familiar with any of these literary works, all published in England in 1907. Yet many remember and many still read and yet others do write about the “Most Remarkable Publication,” the “Very Human Document,” “The Literary Sensation” of the year 1907—as Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son was described upon its appearance.