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family, his parents wished him to become a minister, but he instead began a career in accountancy and banking, relocating to London in 1855. He was the only surviving child of seven. Edward first worked unpaid for six months at an accountant's office in
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and many others as acquaintances. His hospitality and friendship was an important part of the development of their social relations. George
Gissing's close friendship with Clodd began when he accepted an invitation to a Whitsuntide gathering in Aldeburgh in 1895.
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of the Bible is similar to other religious myths and should not be read as a literal account. He wrote many popular books on
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The Birth and Growth of Myth and its
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from 1906 to 1913. He was skeptical about claims of the
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Tom Tit Tot: An essay on savage philosophy in folk-tale
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The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution
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The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution
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535:The Question: If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?
511:. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London.
615:(30 June 1930). "In Memoriam: Edward Clodd".
727:The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture
709:. University of Chicago Press. pp. 222–223.
679:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
451:(with S. Laing). Chapman & Hall, London.
480:Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley
187:Clodd was an early devotee of the work of
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214:Clodd was an agnostic and wrote that the
16:English banker, writer and anthropologist
341:Edward Clodd died at Strafford House in
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832:"Edward Clodd Clouts the Spiritualists"
676:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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568:The Ultimate Guide to Brighton, England
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502:Grant Allen: A Memoir
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