Volume 32, Number 4 · March 14, 1985
The Unreliable Genius
By Janet Malcolm
Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849–1928
by Ann Thwaite
University of Chicago Press, 567 pp., $25.00
Life, after dealing him an unspeakable blow at the age of seven with the death of his mother, was very good to Edmund Gosse; but posterity has not been kind to him. T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, and Virginia Woolf (among others) have left memorably snotty epithets. Eliot, reviewing Evan Charteris's official biography, The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse, in the Criterion in 1931, wrote:
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