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Collected Essays

Collected Essays

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse. WOLCOTT BALESTIER IT was early in 1889 that, on an evening which must always remain memorable to some of us, two or three English writers met, at the house of Mrs. Humphry Ward, a young American man of business ...
Father and Son

Father and Son

Edmund Gosse

Since the book's first publication, it has been a common reaction for readers to prefer the father to the son. In his biography of Gosse, Evan Charteris notes this fact, and declares it to have been one of Gosse's intended aims. He quotes a letter, ...
The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse

The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse

Evan Charteris

This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Father and Son

Father and Son

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, "This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs." Father and Son remains one of English literature's seminal autobiographies.
The Library of Edmund Gosse: Being a Descriptive and ...

The Library of Edmund Gosse: Being a Descriptive and ...

Edmund Gosse

DIXON, RICHARD WATSON. Christ's Company and Other Poems. By Richard Watson Dixon, M.A., London: M.DCCC.LXI. 8vo. Original cloth. Historical Odes and Other Poems. Bv Richard Watson Dixon, M.A. London. M.DCCC.LXIV. 8vo.
The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Omphalos

The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Omphalos

Philip Gosse

Gosse argued that fossils are not really the remains of creatures which existed. Gosse's work was popular with neither Christians nor evolutionists.
The Red Fairy Book (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

The Red Fairy Book (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

Andrew Lang

This book is fully illustrated and annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.
The Violet Fairy Book (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

The Violet Fairy Book (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

Andrew Lang

This book is fully illustrated and annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.
Omphalos, 1857

Omphalos, 1857

Philip Gosse

Gosse argued that fossils are not really the remains of creatures which existed.
Questions at Issue

Questions at Issue

Edmund Gosse

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
After the Civil Wars: English Politics and Government in the ...

After the Civil Wars: English Politics and Government in the ...

John Miller

403; M636/32, Sir Ralph Verney to William Coleman, Edmund Verney to Sir Ralph, 2 February 1679; Bodl, Fairfax MS 33, fo. 51. It was said that Sir Christopher Musgrave's tenants 'dare not deny him': HMC le Fleming, p. 135. Reresby, pp.
8 papers relating to claims to the baronies of Botreaux, ...

8 papers relating to claims to the baronies of Botreaux, ...

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... Second Daughter of Edmund Lord Braye and Ancestress of the Petitioner, married Sir Ralph Verney of Pendlcy and Middle Claydon in the County of Buckingham Knight, and had issue Seven Sons and Two Daughters ; That Edmund Verney ...
Delphi Complete Works of Sir Thomas Malory (Illustrated):

Delphi Complete Works of Sir Thomas Malory (Illustrated):

Sir Thomas Malory

Sir Thomas Malory. there ever still hermit to his life's end. Then Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Gahalantine, Sir Galihud, Sir Galihodin, Sir Blamore, Sir Bleoberis, Sir Villiars le Valiant, Sir Clarrus of Clermont, all these knights drew ...
Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of ...

Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of ...

Steven C. A. Pincus

Ill, p. 504. '9 Edmund Verney to Sir Ralph Verney, 4 May 1667, Firestone Library, Verney MSS, Reel 21 (unfoliated, my translation); Edmund Verney to Sir Ralph Verney, 16 December 1667, Firestone Library, Verney MSS, Reel 22 (unfoliated  ...
The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition)

The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition)

Great Britain. Parliament

Rt. hon. Richard Southwell (Bourke) Lord Naas. CORK COUNTY. Edmund Burke Roche, Vincent Scully. CORK (CITY). Francis Stack Murphy, William Trant Fagan. DONEGAL. Thomas Conolly, Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, bt. DOWNSHIRE.

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