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Edward Sherman Gould was born on 11 May 1808, at Litchfield, Connecticut. He was the fourth son among the nine children of Judge James Gould and his wife, Sally McCurdy Tracy.
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Edward Sherman Gould was born on 11 May 1808, at Litchfield, Connecticut. He was the fourth son among the nine children of Judge James Gould and his wife, Sally McCurdy Tracy.
From his father, at one time head of the Litchfield Law School and a judge of the state supreme court, Gould derived his literary precision and taste. He was an honor student at the Litchfield Female Academy in 1818.
For some time, Gould followed a varied career of writing in New York. In 1836, he delivered a series of lectures under the title, “American Criticism on American Literature, ” decrying superficial and callow American standards of authorship and pointing to the merits of British literature.
He published these lectures the same year in a booklet, Lectures Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association (1836). His labors included the writing of novels, sketches, comedies, translations, and critical texts.
In 1843, he published The Sleep-Rider; or, The Old Boy in the Omnibus, a short novel of adventure; and in 1850 edited Forecastle Yarns, written by a sailor brother, John W. Gould.
His John Doe and Richard Roe; or, Episodes of Life in New York (1862), a series of sketches presenting realistically the atmosphere of the metropolis, appeared first in serial form, and are typical of the author’s journalistic ventures in periodicals such as the Knickerbocker Magazine, the Literary World, and the Mirror.
In the same spirit as his novels is “The Very Age!’’ (1850), a comedy of manners. He also published a number of translations from the French.
In 1867, his Good English; or, Popular Errors in Language undertook to correct current stylistic and philological errors; to it was appended a lecture on “Clerical Elocution” delivered before the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.
Good English reflects upon The Dean’s English: A Criticism on the Dean of Canterbury’s Essays on the Queen’s English, by a Briton, G. Washington Moon, and it drew from Moon a stern reply in Bad English Exposed: A Series of Criticisms on the Errors and Inconsistencies of Lindley Murray and Other Grammarians, in which he found Gould the more culpable because he was one who had “long been recognized in America as an authority in matters of literary and philological criticism. ”
In his eightieth year, he was killed by a runaway horse in New York City. He was buried at Litchfield.
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Although some of his criticism may have been minute and unwarranted historically, Gould showed himself unquestionably a purist of good taste.
Gould was married, but his wife and two sons deserted him.