Cased Folio Society Edition Reprinted for the Folio Society Beautiful image of house and gardens on the cover, spine is slightly faded. "Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments" (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who died early and painfully of breast cancer, was a writer of Christian tracts. His father, Philip Henry Gosse, was an influential, though largely self-taught, invertebrate zoologist and student of marine biology who, after his wife's death, took Edmund to live in Devon. "Father & Son" focuses on the father's response to the new evolutionary theories, especially those of his scientific colleague Charles Darwin, and Edmund's gradual rejection of both his father and his father's fundamentalist religion. As Michael Newton, Lecturer in English, University College London, has written, the book is "a brillia