Excerpt from Art and the Formation of Taste: Six Lectures In 1857 the family left Torquay and took up their abode in the western suburbs of London, where in 1859 Thomas Crane, the father, died. From an early age Lucy Crane showed considerable taste and skill in drawing and colouring. Circumstances, however, turned her attention to general educational work, the field of her labours being confined to a few private families, where her high qualities were known and appreciated. Perhaps the best tribute to her success is the fact that some of her most attached and valued friends in after life had been her early pupils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.