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.
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Sepia-toned photograph of Anna Brownell Jameson, standing with her elbow resting on a book that sits atop a small cloth-draped table. She wears a light dress with white lace trim around the neck, a second layer over the shoulders, apparently a built-in shawl trimmed with dark gauzy cloth. A long, dark, gauzy scarf is draped behind her and over her arms. Her dark curly hair is topped by a bonnet of light and dark ribbons. In one hand she holds a small pair of spectacles.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features 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In a review of Robert Browning 's collected letters, One Letter More From Robert (March 1899) she quotes an unpublished letter sent from Browning to Anna Jameson , which, she argues, displays the Brownings' true...
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features 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...
politics Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
At the meeting the female members of the first Married Women's Property Committee confirmed the text of BLSB 's parliamentary petition and planned for a signature crusade and then for the presentation of the petition...
politics Emily Faithfull
By 1859 The English Woman's Journal was felt to be no longer adequate on its own for promoting women's work, and Jessie Boucherett suggested the creation of a society which would deal specifically with this...
politics Adelaide Procter
Earlier in the year, the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science had appointed AP as member of a committee to consider ways of providing employment opportunities for women. It was an appointment that...
politics Marion Reid
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.
MR was shocked...
politics Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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...
politics Caroline Norton
CN 's public humiliation at the hands of George Norton drove her to campaign against current divorce laws and property laws concerning women. Although not associated with feminist organisations pursuing the cause, she was in...
Occupation Adelaide Kemble
AK 's stature as a singer was evaluated shortly after her retirement by Anna Jameson in her Memoirs and Essays, 1846, and twenty years after it by Henry Chorley in his Thirty Years' Musical...
Occupation Sarah Stickney Ellis
SSE supported her husband's missionary activities, helped edit his writings, and worked with him to promote temperance. She felt uneasy about her role as minister's wife and the invisibility which it brought; when she agreed...
Occupation Elizabeth Rigby
The following year, while ER was busy completing Anna Jameson 's The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art, her numerous engagements made it difficult for her to balance her social...
Literary responses Anna Swanwick
Anna Brownell Jameson praised this work as an achievement few women had equalled.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin.
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A supplementary volume of the Dictionary of National Biography called AS 's Goethe translation accurate and spirited . . . one...

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Texts

Jameson, Anna Brownell. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad. Saunders and Otley, 1834.
Jameson, Anna Brownell. Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada. Saunders and Otley, 1838.