Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Edmund Gosse
Standard Name: Gosse, Edmund
Used Form: Sir Edmund Gosse
Connections
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Wealth and Poverty | Laurence Alma-Tadema | His income had been high and his family had lived well, with a large London house, servants, and plenty of travel. He left his daughters a trust fund for life, plus a lump sum of... |
Wealth and Poverty | Hannah Lynch | HL
first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant
wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson |
Travel | Vernon Lee | VL
was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson
and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen
, Robert Browning |
Textual Production | Toru Dutt | TD
's Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan was published nearly five years after her death with an introductory memoir by noted British critic Edmund Gosse
, who also chose the title for the collection. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Sarojini Naidu | |
Textual Production | Sarojini Naidu | This volume was introduced by her English champion, Edmund Gosse
, who takes a modest tone in recounting their first meeting, but still takes credit for recognising her talent. He finds that in this volume... |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | This volume (once owned by Edmund Gosse
) reproduces with very little revision nearly all the poems in the octavo, as well as adding fifty-five more. It also includes AF
's important prose preface, her... |
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. 55-7 |
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. 65 |
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. 142-3 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
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... |
Reception | Ephelia | Mulvihill's website at http://marauder.millersville.edu/~resound/ephelia/ offers a great deal of information including identifications, put forward with greater or lesser degrees of certainty, of twenty-three historical personages named in Female Poems on Several Occasions, together with... |
Publishing | Toru Dutt | Several of the poems had already appeared in print on the pages of the Bengal Magazine. The collected poems were published by the Saptahik Sambad Press
in Bhowanipore in what Edmund Gosse
described as... |
Publishing | Sarojini Naidu | |
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
. |
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 of the year.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
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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.