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History Lessons
- American Imago
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 73, Number 2, Summer 2016
- pp. 165-180
- 10.1353/aim.2016.0008
- Article
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The essay provides a memoir and reflections on the relations between generations by the granddaughter of the historian and psychologist of art, E. H. Gombrich. As a writer and as E.H. Gombrich’s literary executor, the author explores the questions: Who am I in relation to my history? To what extent is my history our history? Can there be a history in which we all have, to some degree, a share?