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Dinah Birch: A Victorian Naturalist, 19 September 2002
Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse 1810-88
by Ann Thwaite.
Faber, 387 pp., £25, October 2002,0 571 19328 5 Show More
by Ann Thwaite.
Faber, 387 pp., £25, October 2002,
“... to have the cool exactitude of his father’s studies of the private lives of sea anemones. Peter Abbs’s introduction to the current Penguin edition, first published in 1983, accepts the memoir as a faithful record of what happened: ‘As a documentary record we know, from other sources, that most of the facts are accurate.’ This is very much the ... ”