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Charles Gibson
1874–1954
A Boston writer and poet with a deep love of old-world style, he is best remembered for preserving the family home that became the Gibson House Museum. His books and poems reflect a strong attachment to elegance, travel, and the fading atmosphere of Victorian Boston.
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The wounded Eros : sonnets
by Charles Gibson
About the author
Born in Boston in 1874, Charles Hammond Gibson Jr. was an American author, poet, and preservationist from a prominent Back Bay family. He published fiction, poetry, and travel writing, including Two Gentlemen in Touraine, Among French Inns, The Spirit of Love and Other Poems, and The Wounded Eros.
Gibson moved in literary circles and was active in Boston cultural life, later serving as chairman of the Boston Authors Club. His writing often drew on a refined, old-fashioned sensibility, shaped by his affection for European travel and for the social world of late nineteenth-century Boston.
Today, he is especially remembered for saving his family’s house at 137 Beacon Street and turning it into the Gibson House Museum. That decision preserved a remarkably complete picture of Victorian and Edwardian domestic life, giving his legacy a life beyond the printed page.