Edmund Gosse

Standard Name: Gosse, Edmund
Used Form: Sir Edmund Gosse

Connections

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Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
Her own previously published poems (Arsinoë's Cats and To My Cat) shared the volume with the work of other poets including Baudelaire , Edmund Gosse , and Théophile Gautier .
Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 134-55.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Friends, Associates Mary Augusta Ward
She met a number of important writers through her newspaper work. She associated with Alexander Macmillan , Sir George Grove , Edmund Gosse and his wife Ellen , John Morley , and her uncle Matthew Arnold
Literary responses Mary Augusta Ward
MAW 's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith , Sir J. M. Barrie , and Henry James. James wrote to her...
Reception Jane Taylor
Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in...
Friends, Associates Flora Annie Steel
One dinner-party at William Heinemann 's featured the artist James McNeill Whistler (whose paintings were much in evidence on the walls), Edmund Gosse and his wife , FAS and her daughter, and Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...
Literary responses Vita Sackville-West
VSW received personal congratulations on her stories from Sir Edmund Gosse and John Galsworthy . Among reviewers the only unfavourable voice was that of Rebecca West . S. P. B. Mais in the Daily Express...
Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
ER , Marion Lea , and William Archermodified for stage production Edmund Gosse 's translation of Ibsen 's Hedda Gabler (published earlier the same year).
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
Heinemann published an English translation of Ibsen's The Master Builder by William Archer and Edmund Gosse ; ER helped with the translation.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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Friends, Associates Coventry Patmore
CP 's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and John Ruskin . Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edmund Gosse . Among...
Friends, Associates Walter Pater
From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson
Intertextuality and Influence Bessie Rayner Parkes
Three-quarters of a century later her daughter reported that the young Edmund Gosse was a great admirer of BRP 's poetry in general. As a schoolboy he knew and loved her romantic lyric about Robin...
Author summary Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu was an Indian poet and political activist who published in English in the first decades of the twentieth century.
The British Library catalogue spells her name Sarojini Nayadu .
While studying in England...
Friends, Associates Sarojini Naidu
SN met a number of notable English literary figures at Miss Manning's accommodations, and particularly Arthur Symons and Edmund Gosse , both of whom helped her to launch her literary career.
Intertextuality and Influence Sarojini Naidu
The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons and Edmund Gosse , and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of...

Timeline

1852-1860: The writing of Philip Gosse inspired a beachcombing...

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1852-1860

The writing of Philip Gosse inspired a beachcombing and aquarium craze.

1864: Unitarian and feminist Mentia Taylor formed...

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1864

Unitarian and feminist Mentia Taylor formed in London the Pen and Pencil Club to foster literary and artistic exchange.

1893: Arthur Munby published a narrative poem called...

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1893

Arthur Munby published a narrative poem called Susan: A Poem of Degrees, a thinly disguised account of his tempestuous secret love for working-class diarist Hannah Cullwick .

1907: Edmund Gosse anonymously published Father...

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1907

Edmund Gosse anonymously published Father and Son, an autobiography of his early years which presents his father, the scientist Philip Gosse , as an oppressive, small-minded bigot.
Birch, Dinah. “Fond Father”. London Review of Books, pp. 3-5.
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10 July 1919: The Hawthornden Prize, founded by Alice Warrender...

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10 July 1919

The Hawthornden Prize, founded by Alice Warrender (a Scottish baronet's daughter) and named after William Drummond of Hawthornden, was first awarded, for the best work of imaginative literature
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
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of the year.

Texts

Dutt, Toru, and Edmund Gosse. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1882.
Gosse, Edmund. Coventry Patmore. Scholarly Press, 1970.
Gosse, Edmund, and Sarojini Naidu. “Introduction”. The Bird of Time, William Heinemann; John Lane, 1912, pp. 1-8.
Gosse, Edmund et al. “Introduction to Poems by Toru Dutt”. Hindu Literature, edited by Epiphanius Wilson, Colonial Press, 1900, pp. 425-33.
Naidu, Sarojini, and Edmund Gosse. The Bird of Time. William Heinemann; John Lane, 1912.