| CONTENTS | |
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| CHAPTER I | |
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| EARLY DAYS | page |
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| I come into the world.—The story of my ancestry.—Mymother.—Wilkie Collins.—The Collinsfamily.—Slough and Upton.—The funeral of the Duchessof Kent.—The marriage of the Princess Royal.—HerMajesty Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.—Their visitsto my parents' studios.—The Prince of Wales.—SirWilliam Ross, R.A.—Westminster Abbey.—Mycomposition.—A visit to Astley's Theatre.—WilkieCollins and Pigott.—The Panopticon.—The Thames frozenover.—The Comet.—General Sir John Hearsey.—KentVilla.—My father.—Lady Waterford.—Marcus Stoneand Vicat Cole.—The Crystal Palace.—Rev. J. M.Bellew.—Kyrle Bellew.—I go to school.—WentworthHope Johnstone. | 1 |
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| CHAPTER II | |
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| ETON AND AFTER | |
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| Eton days.—Windsor Fair.—My Dame.—Fights and Fun.—BoveneyCourt.—Mr. Hall Say.—Boveney.—Professor and Mrs. Attwell.—Iwin a useful prize.—Alban Doran.—My father's frescoes.—BattleAbbey.—Gainsborough's Tomb.—Knole.—Our burglar.—ClaudeCalthrop.—Clayton Calthrop.—The Gardener as Critic.—The Gipsywith an eye for colour.—I attempt sculpture.—The Terryfamily.—Private theatricals.—Sir John Hare.—Miss MarionTerry.—Miss Ellen Terry.—Miss Kate Terry.—Miss Bateman.—MissFlorence St. John.—Constable.—Sir Howard Vincent.—I dance withPatti.—Lancaster Gate and Meringues.—Prayers and Pantries. | 27 |
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| CHAPTER III | |
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| MY FATHER'S FRIENDS | |
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| My father's friends.—The Pre-Raphaelites.—Plum-boxpainting.—The Victorians.—ThePost-Impressionists.—Maclise.—Sir Edwin Landseer.—TomLandseer.—Mulready.—Daniel Roberts.—Edward Cooke.—Burgess andLong.—Frith.—Millais.—Stephens and HolmanHunt.—Stanfield.—C. R. Leslie.—Dr. John Doran.—Mr. and Mrs.S. C. Hall.—The Virtues, James and William.—Mr. and Mrs. TomTaylor.—A story of Tennyson.—Sam Lover.—Moscheles père etfils.—Philip Calderon.—Sir Theodore and LadyMartin.—Garibaldi.—Lord Crewe.—Fechter.—Joachim and LordHoughton.—Charles Dickens.—Lord Stanhope.—William HepworthDixon.—Sir Charles Dilke. | 48 |
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