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Mona Gould Gossip

Fiction
English
3565 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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White as popcorn, was the tree And underneath it on the lea A little goat looked up at me.Bright and [more]

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Evercaptivating Gossip Interrupted

One-Sided Conversation

Short Story
English
490 Words
No Age Recommendation
485
2

This was going to be my entry in the One-Sided Phone Conversation, but alas they only wanted dialogue. [more]

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Linda H. Light Garden Variety Gossip

Juvenile Fiction
English
1378 Words
No Age Recommendation
345
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Plants in a family garden discuss everyday opinions and demonstrate a side of their nature that is not [more]

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Edmund Gosse GOSSIP IN A LIBRARY

Fiction
English
51434 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Edmund Gosse's father was a naturalist and his mother an illustrator who published a number of books of poetry. Both were deeply committed to a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren. His childhood was initially happy as they spent their summers in Devon where his father was developing the ideas which gave rise to the craze for the marine aquarium. After his mother died of breast cancer when he was eight and they moved to Devon, his life with his father became increasingly strained by his father's expectations that he should follow in his religious tradition. Gosse was sent to a boarding school where he began to develop his own interests in literature. His father married in 1860 the deeply religious Quaker spinster Eliza Brightwen (1813–1900), whose brother Thomas tried to encourage Edmund to become a banker. He later gave an account of his childhood in the book Father and Son which has been described as the first psychological biography. At the age of 18 and working in the British Museum in London, he broke away from his father's influence in a dramatic coming of age. [more]

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