Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Standard Name: Jameson, Anna Brownell
Birth Name: Anna Brownell Murphy
Nickname: Nina
Married Name: Anna Brownell Jameson
Indexed Name: Anna Brownwell Murphy
ABJ
, a prolific and professional writer of non-fiction, is best remembered for her travel writing, her treatises on art, and her provocative studies of fictional and famous women. In England she is noted for her feminist criticism and biography, and for her support of the younger set of writers and activists who founded the English Woman's Journal. In Canadian literary history she is remembered primarily for her forward-looking, feminist travel narrative Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada. Critics are just beginning to take stock of the achievements and influence of one of the foremost women of letters in early Victorian England.
Mermin, Dorothy. Godiva’s Ride: Women of Letters in England 1830-1880. Indiana University Press.
In June 1840, MR
attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London, together with Anna Brownell Jameson
, Amelia Opie
, and Lady Byron
. She was the only Scotswoman present.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
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Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press.
EBB
had showed a keen interest in women's issues from early in life, when she seems to have been for some time a devotee of Mary Wollstonecraft
. But she told Browning in 1845 that...
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Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South reflects the debate over middle-class female employment which had been powerfully voiced by Anna Jameson
, to whom EG
confessed herself greatly indebted in a letter of 1855.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press.
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The case for...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Her response to him made it clear that she wanted a literary friendship and exchange. He resisted her attempts to cast him as her tutor—as well he might, being younger and the less established poet...
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Susanna Moodie
Roughing It in the Bush is a collection of sketches about a difficult adjustment to pioneer life in Canada, based on real incidents in SM
's life before her move to Belleville and embellished...
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Mary Cowden Clarke
Despite the word girlhood, MCC
meant these tales as adult reading matter. Working in the tradition of Anna Brownell Jameson
's Shakespeare's Heroines (originally published in 1832 as Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical and...
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Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC
takes her examples of great works done by women from three books published only the previous year: The Communion of Labour by Anna Jameson
, Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses by Frances Margaret Taylor
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Isabella Bird
This early travel narrative is immature in comparison with IB
's later writing. It repeats accepted stereotypes about Americans through the voice of a tentative female traveller who, in turn, conforms to the stereotype of...
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Jessie White Mario
In a review of Robert Browning
's collected letters, One Letter More From Robert (March 1899) she quotes an unpublished letter sent from Browning to Anna Jameson
, which, she argues, displays the Brownings' true...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By 1832 she had read Mme de Staël
's novel of the romantic female artist, Corinne, three times and claimed the immortal book ought to be reread annually.
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press.
In March 1864 ER
published The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art, by herself and Anna Brownell Jameson
, in two volumes. Most of the actual writing in the book...
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Margaret Oliphant
After Anna Brownell Jameson
's niece Gerardine Macpherson
died, MO
edited her recently completed Memoirs of the Life of Anna Jameson, wrote a Postscript, and saw it through the press.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Though HBS
was internationally recognized for her written works she was not, unlike many other contemporary literary figures, a frequent lecturer. While Dickens
, Samuel Clemens
(who published as Mark Twain), Julia Ward Howe
...
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Agnes Strickland
Even before settling in London, AS
began her professional authorial career with tales for children, many published in The Parting Gift, of which she was at that time the editor.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
