Father and Son
A son's account of breaking with his fiercely religious father, and the book that made that break public in 1907.
Edmund Gosse’s 1907 memoir of growing up with his father, Philip Henry Gosse, a naturalist and a devout member of the Plymouth Brethren. After his mother’s early death, the boy is raised to be a model of faith, and the book traces how doubt slowly took hold of him. It is a study of two temperaments in conflict and a landmark of English autobiography.
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Dorothy Rowe
I have read innumerable books over my lifetime and some I would have said in the past were wonderful. But the only book that, in my eyes, has remained wonderful is Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son. When it was first published in 1907 it was shocking because up till then no son would ever criticise his father.
Interview · May 2010
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