author
Eugénie Hamerton
b. 1838
A French-born novelist and memoirist, she is best remembered for preserving the life and work of Philip Gilbert Hamerton while also publishing fiction of her own. Her writing moves between imaginative storytelling and intimate literary remembrance.
1 Audiobook
Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894
by Eugénie Hamerton, Philip Gilbert Hamerton
About the author
Eugénie Hamerton, sometimes listed as Eugénie Gindriez Hamerton, was a 19th-century author associated with both fiction and memoir. Reliable catalog and reference sources identify her as French, note that she was the wife of writer and art critic Philip Gilbert Hamerton, and show that she was still living when her memoir work appeared in 1896.
Her known books include Jeanne Laraguay (1864), The Mirror of Truth and Other Marvellous Histories (1875), and Golden Mediocrity (1886). She is now especially remembered for Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894, which brought together his autobiographical writing with her own account of his later life.
Some sources give her birth year as 1839 rather than 1838, so that detail appears to be uncertain. A clear confirmed portrait was not available from the sources I could verify.