Catherine Hewitt studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She lectures and runs workshops on 19th-century French art, literature, and social history and has worked as a translator, including the translation of a permanent exhibition of the work of the radical French female painter Suzanne Valadon.  She is the author of The Mistress of Paris and Renoir's Dancer. She lives in Surrey, United Kingdom. 

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