The Custom of Biography

Title

The Custom of Biography

Description

Various nations have diverse ways of building the tombs of their prophets. The Americans endow institutions -- usually styled 'universities' -- and give to them the names of the deceased. The French, believing with Goethe that the best memorial of a man is his effigy, fill the squares of their country towns with bronze statues.

Creator

Edmund Gosse

Source

Gosse, Edmund. "The Custom of Biography." The Anglo-Saxon Review, vol. 8, March 1901, pp. 195-208.

Publisher

George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett,
http://GeorgeEliotArchive.org.

Date

1901-03

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