Hamerton, author of The Intellectual Life and founder of the art journal The Portfolio, wrote the story of his Lancashire boyhood and youth up to 1858. His French wife Eugénie completes it with a memoir of their marriage, their life in France, his struggles and successes as a painter, etcher and writer, and his letters to publishers and friends.
An intimate portrait of a Victorian man of letters and of an Anglo-French marriage. Download the free EPUB.