A little over one hundred years ago the British author Edmund Gosse published Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments. It detailed the author's memories of his austere upbringing in London and the Devonshire coast, his mother's tragic death while he was still a young boy, his religious education under his father's strict yet loving hand, and his eventual break with his father at the age of 18. Lauded both by critics and prominent fellow writers upon its release in 1907, it also caused somewhat of a stir for its candid and at times unflattering depiction of the author's father, the eminent naturalist Philip Henry Gosse. Rudyard Kipling called it ‘extraordinarily interesting - more interesting than David Copperfield because it's true’, while one review remarked that ‘This is an excellent book, though we hardly like the anatomisation of one's father’ (cited in Thwaite, Literary Landscape 435–6).