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In the 20th century, however, Gosse was seen mainly through the dark gaze of his son and only child, the man of letters Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928). In the classic Father and Son, Gosse the younger portrayed his father as a stern Puritan fanatic, ever-alert to “popish practices” such as the celebration of Christmas. Learning from his guilt-stricken small son that the servants had made a Christmas pudding, he stormed into the kitchen and threw “the idolatrous confectionery” into the fire.