Emily Bowes

Emily Bowes Gosse was born on 10 November 1806 and died of breast cancer on 10 February 1857 [Gosse, Edmund, "Father and Son", Appendix I] [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8jmfva8TTEcC Bynum, William F., "The Western Medical Tradition:1800 to 2000", pp.204-208, Cambridge University Press, 2006] ] ) She was a Victorian painter and illustrator, and writer of evangelical Christian poems and tracts [ [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11113 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004] ] .

Biography

Emily Bowes was born on 10 November 1806 in London, to William and Hannah. Her early years were divided between Merioneth, Exmouth and London, and in 1824 she commenced work as a governess to Revd John Hawkins in Berkshire, later moving to the home of Revd Sir Christopher John Musgrave, in Hove.

After these spells, Emily returned to London to stay with her parents in Clapton. She attended the Plymouth Brethren assembly in Hackney, where she met her future husband - she was married at Brook Street Chapel, Tottenham, in 1848 to Philip Henry Gosse, and gave birth to their only child, Edmund in 1849. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11113] Emily died in Islington on 10 February 1857 after a painful and protracted battle with breast cancer, and was buried in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington. Her last words were reputed to be to her husband: "I shall walk with Him in white. Won't you take our lamb and walk with me?" [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7469054]

Painting

Emily Gosse was specifically a landscape painter, having studied with John Sell Cotman. Her work includes the uncredited chromolithographs for her husband's book "The Aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea" (1854) [Barbara T Gates, "Kindred Nature: Victorian & Edwardian Women Embrace The Living World, University of Chicago Press, 1998. ISBN 0226284433, 9780226284439] .

Publications

Gosse was a writer of Christian poetry [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dsO2AAAACAAJ Boyd, R., "Emily Gosse: A Life of Faith and Works : the Story of Her Life and Witness with Her Published Poems and Samples of Her Prose Writings", Olivet Books 2004] ] and a prolific author and distributor of religious tracts, as for example in "Narrative Tracts", co-written with her husband [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usYFGwAACAAJ Gosse, Emily & Gosse, PH, "Narrative Tracts", Morgan & Scott, 1865] ] . Her most noted publication is "Abraham And His Children" (1855), a set of object lessons using Biblical characters to illustrate parenting principles. [

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11113]

ee also

* Lingard, Ann, "Seaside Pleasures" (Littoralis Press, 2003). ISBN 0-9544572-0-X
* Thwaite, Ann, "Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse, 1810-1888" (London: Faber & Faber, 2002, ISBN 0-5711932-8)

* [http://ia360917.us.archive.org/3/items/telljesusrecoll00ship/telljesusrecoll00ship.pdf Shipton, Anna, "Tell Jesus: recollections of Emily Gosse", New York, T.Y. Crowell, 1868]

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