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
Gosse, Edmund
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. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org
Date
1901-03
Citation
Gosse, Edmund, The Custom of Biography, Contemporaries on George Eliot's Life, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/54954