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Eugénie Hamerton

b. 1838

Best known today for preserving the life story of artist and critic Philip Gilbert Hamerton, this 19th-century French writer also published fiction of her own. Her work connects domestic memoir, literary storytelling, and the art world that shaped her life.

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Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

by Eugénie Hamerton, Philip Gilbert Hamerton

About the author

Eugénie Hamerton, also listed as Eugénie Gindriez, was a 19th-century French author. Available catalog records and library listings connect her most clearly with Philip Gilbert Hamerton, the memoir she wrote about her husband after his death, and with a small body of fiction published under her own name.

She was the wife of the English artist, critic, and writer Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Sources about his life identify her as the daughter of a French republican magistrate, and Project Gutenberg and HathiTrust both credit her with the memoir portion of Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography, 1834–1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858–1894.

Specialist bibliographic sources also attribute novels and tales to her, including Jeanne Laraguay (1864) and The Mirror of Truth and Other Marvellous Histories (1875). I could not confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources available here, so none is included.