![]() Michael Newton, Lecturer in English, University College London, has called the book "a brilliant, and often comic, record of the small diplomacies of home: those indirections, omissions, insincerities, and secrecies that underlie family relationships." "rilliantly written, and full of gentle wit," the book is "an unmatched social document, preserving for us whole the experience of childhood in a Protestant sect in the Victorian period.Above all, it is one of our best accounts of adolescence, particularly for those who endured.a religious upbringing." Literary critic Vivian Gornick has described the book as an early example of the modern memoir of "becoming", in which "What happened to the writer is not what matters what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened." Īlthough Edmund Gosse prefaces the book with the claim that the incidents described are sober reality, a modern biography of Philip Henry Gosse by Ann Thwaite presents him not as a repressive tyrant who cruelly scrutinized the state of his son's soul but as a gentle and thoughtful person of "delicacy and inner warmth", much unlike his son's portrait. ![]() Frontispiece to the first edition of Father and Son. ![]() Close ▲ Philip Henry Gosse with his son Edmund Gosse, 1857. ![]()
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