A series ofsix talks on Augustus Hare by Humphrey Higgens
Well known in his day as a raconteur and a writer of travel-guides, Augustus Hare published, at the end of the last century, his memoirs in six fat volumes. ' Seldom,' says Mr. Somerset Maugham, * can a work have been received with such a unanimity of hostile criticism.'
In this first talk Humphrey Higgens gives an account of Hare's most unhappy childhood.
Reader, Richard Hurndall