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Name
  
Edward Gould

Died
  
February 21, 1885

Parents
  
James Gould


Books
  
Good English: Or, Popular Errors in Language

Edward Sherman Gould (11 May 1808 Litchfield, Connecticut - 21 February 1885 New York City) was a 19th-century United States author and critic.

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Biography

He was the son of jurist James Gould, and an early contributor of tales to the Knickerbocker Magazine, to the New World, the Mirror, the The Literary World, and other journals. His signature of “Cassio” in Charles King's American was at one time well known. In 1830 he lectured before the New York Mercantile Library Association on “American Criticism in American Literature.” In his talk, he opposed the prevalent spirit of overflowing praise as injurious to the interests of the country.

Works

Translations:

  • Alexandre Dumas, Travels in Egypt and Arabia Petraea (1839)
  • Dupré, Progress of Democracy (1841)
  • Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet (1841)
  • Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot (1842)
  • Alexandre Dumas, Impressions of Travel in Switzerland
  • Victor Hugo, Handsome Pecopin
  • A. Royer, Charles de Bourbon (1842-1843)

    • In addition to contributing to many literary and theological journals, he wrote:

  • The Sleep Rider; or, the Old Boy in the Omnibus. 1843. 
  • Abridgment of Alison's History of Europe (New York, 1843)
  • The Very Age, a comedy (1850)
  • John Doe and Richard Roe; or, Episodes of Life in New York (1862)
  • Good English, or Popular Errors in Language (1867)
  • Classical Elocution (1867)
  • Supplement to Duyckinck's History of the New World (1871)

    • References

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