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Charles Gibson
1874–1954
A Boston writer, poet, and preservationist, he captured the charm of travel and old-world style in books like Two Gentlemen in Touraine and Among French Inns. He is also remembered for preserving his family home as the Gibson House Museum, a remarkably intact window into 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. came from a prominent family but made his own mark as a writer and poet. He published travel books including Two Gentlemen in Touraine and Among French Inns, along with poetry such as The Wounded Eros. His writing often reflected a love of elegance, atmosphere, and the pleasures of place.
Gibson spent time in Europe and developed a strong attachment to the artistic and social worlds of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That sensibility shaped both his books and the life he built around beauty, ritual, and memory.
He is perhaps best known today for preserving the Boston house where he lived, which became the Gibson House Museum. By keeping the home and its contents intact, he left behind more than books: he also created an unusually vivid record of Victorian-era domestic life. He died in 1954.