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Everyone has a swipe at their parents and the way they were
brought up at some point in their lives very few of us exact
revenge to the extent that Edmund Gosse did upon his father
in this superbly funny, agonising account of a very strange
childhood. The subtitle of the book is A Study of Two
Temperaments, and these were temperaments not destined to
get on. Gosse, Sr. was an eminent naturalist and zoologist and
a keen follower of the Plymouth Brethren. Gosse, Jr. had a
natural leaning towards the arts and would grow up to be one
of Victorian England's leading literary figures. The battle lines
were drawn. Throw into the picture the struggle already taking
place within Gosse, Sr. (and most of the rest of the country) to
reconcile his faith with the new theory of evolution as
expounded by his fellow naturalist, Charles Darwin, and
backed up by his own zoological studies, and you have the
makings of a seriously entertaining fight. This is a beautifully
wry description of the attempt of a son to extricate himself from
the vast influence of his father. Much has been made of
Edmund Gosse's (possibly necessary) adjustment of the facts,
but you can understand his need to speak out a bit when the
entry in his father&#8217journal for the day of his birth reads,
'E. delivered of a son. Received green swallow from Jamaica'.
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they were brought up at some point in their lives very few of us

exact revenge to the extent that Edmund Gosse did upon his
father in this superbly funny, agonising account of a very
strange childhood. The subtitle of the book is A Study of Two
Temperaments, and these were temperaments not destined to
get on. Gosse, Sr. was an eminent naturalist and zoologist and
a keen follower of the Plymouth Brethren. Gosse, Jr. had a
natural leaning towards the arts and would grow up to be one
of Victorian England's leading literary figures. The battle lines
were drawn. Throw into the picture the struggle already taking
place within Gosse, Sr. (and most of the rest of the country) to
reconcile his faith with the new theory of evolution as
expounded by his fellow naturalist, Charles Darwin, and
backed up by his own zoological studies, and you have the
makings of a seriously entertaining fight. This is a beautifully
wry description of the attempt of a son to extricate himself from
the vast influence of his father. Much has been made of
Edmund Gosse's (possibly necessary) adjustment of the facts,
but you can understand his need to speak out a bit when the
entry in his father&#8217journal for the day of his birth reads,
'E. delivered of a son. Received green swallow from Jamaica'.