biography
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Gosse, Sir Edmund William
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1845–1928)
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| biography:
| Critic, essayist, and translator, born in London, UK. He was educated privately, and became assistant librarian in the British Museum (1867–75), then translator to the Board of Trade (1875–1904) and finally librarian to the House of Lords (1904–14). His Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe (1879), and other critical works, first introduced Ibsen to English-speaking readers. He is also remembered for his autobiography, Father and Son (1907), in which his father is portrayed as a puritanical, authoritarian Christian. He was knighted in 1925. |
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