“Now love is the great means of self-negation: and you will find that you may accurately test the health and quality of your love by the degree to which self grows imperceptible to you.”
About Sydney Dobell
5 April 1824–22 August 1874
Sydney Thompson Dobell was born on 5 April 1824 at Cranbrook in Kent, into a family whose circumstances placed him close to the commercial and dissenting middle-class culture of provincial England rather than to the aristocratic literary world. His father, Thomas Dobell, was a wine merchant, and the business of…