Harry Furniss illustrated the complete works of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as the Lewis Carroll’s novel Sylvie and Bruno. Furniss wrote and illustrated twenty-nine books of his own, including Some Victorian Men and Some Victorian Women and illustrated thirty-four works by other authors. His two-volume autobiography, titled The Confessions of a Caricaturist was published in 1902, and an additional volume of personal recollections and anecdotes, Harry Furniss At Home, was published in 1904.
Contents:
Confessions of My Childhood – and After
Bohemian Confessions
My Confessions as a Special Artist
The Confessions of an Illustrator – a Serious Chapter
A Chat between My Pen and Pencil
Parliamentary Confessions
‘Punch’
The Artistic Joke
Confessions of a Columbus
Australia
Platform Confessions
My Confessions as a ‘Reformer’
The Confessions of an Editor