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.
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...
Textual Production
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.
115
Travel
Margaret Oliphant
Since he could not work while on the move, they planned to live on her literary earnings. He concealed the severity of his illness from her and pretended that he would be studying art in...
Friends, Associates
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Writer Anna Jameson
played an important role in the lives of these two women, acting in a maternal role, encouraging Parkes in her poetic endeavours and Smith in her artistic projects.
Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38.
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. Essays on Woman’s Work. Alexander Strahan.
prelims
Some of the essays were reprinted from earlier articles in the English Woman's Journal. This text too was reissued by Cambridge University Press
in 2010...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Bessie Rayner Parkes
The twelve women treated are as various in nationality, creed, habits of mind, and daily pursuits as can well be imagined. . . . but of every one of them it may truly be said...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Bessie Rayner Parkes
A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
AP
's health was poor from an early age. A letter from William Thackeray
describes her at the age of fourteen as vomiting basins of blood. She went to Italy for a year in 1853-54...
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.
Scholar Margaret McFadden
notes that this work was tremendously successful, particularly in the United States, where it went through five editions between 1847 and 1852. The 1847 edition and all ensuing versions were printed...
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...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Rigby
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...
Friends, Associates
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Closest to CMS
were her siblings and their spouses, several of whom were also published authors. The Sedgwick family and Fanny Kemble
were apparently the inner circle of the literary scene in the Berkshires,...