Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (The New Windmill Library edition)

Gosse, Edmund

Published by Heinemann, London, 1930

About this Item

Titles, sepia frontis. illustration & preface to front. Edmund Gosse's Father and Son is a 1907 memoir detailing his isolated childhood within a devout, Plymouth Brethren family and his subsequent struggle to find his own identity apart from his authoritarian, scientifically-minded father, Philip Henry Gosse. The book portrays the intense conflict between his father's literal biblical faith and the emerging scientific understanding of evolution, particularly after the death of Gosse's mother. It is celebrated as a pioneering psychological memoir exploring the triumph of individuality over oppressive religious and familial control. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. vi + 335. Slight foxing to frontis. illustration & reverse thereof. Previous owner's book-plates laid in (one being that of the artist Sheila Scott Henderson with signature thereon & also on the fep.). Top edge brown. Gilt titles & border spine with gilt vignette to front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Psychology & Psychiatry; Literature & Literary; Plymouth Brethren; Family & Relationships. Inventory No: 5330. Hardcover (Original Brown Cloth).

Seller Inventory # 5330

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (The New Windmill Library edition)
• Publisher: Heinemann, London
• Publication Date: 1930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Third Impression.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography