Anna Brownell Jameson
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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.
, 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
Biography
In a letter to the Murphy family in 1833, Aunt Nina or Moña Nina.
's sister Charlotte repeatedly refers to her as Nina; this was the family's nickname for her. To the Brownings she was known as