"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego - and a Sancho Panza, the Self."

~ W.H. Auden

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• Currently Featuring:

PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

1834-1858

AND A MEMOIR BY HIS WIFE

1858-1894

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Philip Gilbert Hamerton (10 September 1834 – 4 November 1894) was an English artist, art critic and author. He was a keen advocate of contemporary printmaking and most of his writings were about the graphic arts. Hamerton was an important theorist of the English Etching Revival. He was married to fellow author Eugénie Gindriez, the daughter of a French republican magistrate.

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My name is Pearl,

I'm a visual artist, writer and researcher.

I created this publication to bring you chapters of intriguing and insightful autobiographies written by the most interesting thinkers and unique human beings - as well as by some very flawed characters of their time.

Join me on this fascinating intellectual journey through the intriguing minds of the ones who came before us...

Best wishes,

~ Pearl Andersen

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