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Gerald Gould (1885–1936) was an English writer, known as a journalist and reviewer, essayist and poet. ==Life== He was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire,〔GRO Register of Births: JUN 1885 9d 367 SCARBRO Gerald Gould, mmn = unknown〕 and brought up in Norwich, and studied at University College London and Magdalen College, Oxford. He had a position at University College from 1906, and was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1909 to 1916.〔''Poems of Today'' (1915), p. xxiii of biographical notes to later editions.〕 On February 6, 1914, he and his wife Barbara Ayrton-Gould became two of the founders of the United Suffragists, which had male and female members.〔http://www.biography.com/news/suffragette-movie-history〕 The United Suffragists ended their campaign when 1918's Representation of the People Act gave women limited suffrage in the United Kingdom.〔 From 1914 he was an official in Masterman's Wellington House Propaganda Department, which may explain his failure to produce much poetry concerned with the War.〔L Masterman. CFG Masterman. p. 275.〕 He also worked as a journalist on the ''Daily Herald'' as one of ''Lansbury's Lambs'' — the group of idealistic young men helping with it after George Lansbury purchased it in 1913, and which included Douglas Cole, W. N. Ewer, Harold Laski, William Mellor and Francis Meynell. It was probably Gould who brought Siegfried Sassoon to the paper as literary editor after its relaunch in 1919.〔Jean Moorcroft Wilson, ''Siegfried Sassoon'' vol. II (2003), p. 47.〕 Gould regularly contributed poetry to the ''Herald'' and gave several sonnets to Millicent Fawcett's ''Common Cause'' when it became the ''Woman's Leader'' in 1920. Gould also reviewed novels for the ''New Statesman'', moving to ''The Observer'' as fiction editor in 1920. He was also (not coincidentally) made chief reader for Victor Gollancz Ltd., where he was involved in the early publication history of George Orwell. His poem ''Wander-thirst'' is often quoted. Much of his poetry remains buried in the columns of newspapers and periodicals. The few collections that appeared, although well reviewed by contemporaries, are long out of print. He died in 1936 in London.〔GRO Register of Deaths: DEC 1936 1a 667 MARYLEBONE - Gerald Gould, aged 51〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerald Gould」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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