Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860)
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Anna Brownell Jameson, 1794 - 1860 Anna Jameson was born in Dublin, Ireland on May 19, 1794, the eldest child of Denis Brownell Murphy, a miniature painter. In 1798, Anna went with her parents to England leaving behind her two sisters. The family was reunited in 1802, and they moved to London in visa mer 1803. Anna became engaged to Robert Jameson, a lawyer, in 1820, but broke the engagement off and left for Italy with the Rowles family as a governess to their daughter Laura. In 1825, she finally married Robert Jameson. She published "The Diary of an Ennuye" (1825), which is a fictitious account of her travels in Italy. It gained her some notoriety when it was revealed that is wasn't completely autobiographical. Her husband took the position as a judge in Dominica in 1829, and she went with her father and Sir Gerard Noel to the Continent because of the failure of her marriage. Anna went to Germany where she became very fond of sculptor Henry Behnes Burlow, who died in the cholera epidemic in 1837. Before his death, Burlow introduced her to Robert Noel, cousin to Lady Byron, who then introduced her to painter Retzsch and the Goethe family. She returned to England when her father became ill and remained there for almost two years. She returned to Canada, in 1836, in an attempt to resume her marriage. In 1837, she made a trip around Lake Huron, which is documented in "Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada." Afterwards, she agreed to a formal separation and, in 1854, her husband died and left his estate to others, leaving Anna with nothing. In 1842, her father died and her mother died in 1854. She now was traveling to Scotland, Ireland, Germany and Italy while working on her series of art histories. "Sisters of Charity" was first introduced as a lecture at the home of her friend Elizabeth Jesser Reid. It was followed by another lecture and publication "The Communion of Labour." A group of Jameson's friends put together an annuity to supplement her income because her health was steadily deteriorating. On March 17, 1860, Anna Brownell Jameson died after a brief illness. Before her death, Jameson destroyed many of her personal letters and papers, but a collection was edited by G.H. Needler and published as "Letters of Anna Jameson to Ottilie von Goethe" in 1939. A smaller collection of letters between Lady Byron and Jameson are held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Three other biographies that contain letters in whole or in part are "Memoirs" (MacPherson, 1878), "Letters and Friendships" (Erskine, 1915), and "Love and Work Enough" (Thomas, 1967). (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art; with that of His types; St. John the Baptist; and other persons… (1864) 8 exemplar
Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character 5 exemplar
The Writings on Art of Anna Jameson in Five Volumes - Volume I - Sacred and Legendary Art - Edited, with Additional… (1875) 4 exemplar
Studies, stories, and memoirs 3 exemplar
Shakespeare’s Heroines.: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical, Annotated and Illustrated (2019) 3 exemplar
Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson 2 exemplar
Sacred and Legendary Art, etc 1 exemplar
Celebrated Female Sovereigns (Vol. 2) 1 exemplar
Shakespeare's heroines. 1 exemplar
Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles the Second: With Their Portraits, After Sir Peter Lely and Other… (2017) 1 exemplar
The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the… (2011) 1 exemplar
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- Jameson, Anna Brownell Murphy
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- 1794-05-17
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- 1860-03-17
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- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
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- female
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- Ireland
- Födelseort
- Dublin, Ireland
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- London, England, UK
- Dödsorsak
- a severe cold
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- London, England, UK
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Germany - Yrken
- writer
biographer
travel writer
art historian
feminist - Relationer
- Eastlake, Lady Elizabeth (co-author)
- Organisationer
- Society for the Promotion of Employment for Women
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- Anna Brownell Murphy was born in Dublin, the eldest of five daughters, and moved with her family to England in 1798. Skilled at linguistics, at age 16 she found work as a governess in an aristocratic family. Her first major work, The Diary of an Ennuyée, a fictitious account of her earlier travels in Italy, was published in 1825; that same year, she married Robert Simpson Jameson, a lawyer. The marriage was unhappy, and the couple separated for long periods, but Anna Brownell Jameson accompanied her husband to Canada in 1836. She returned to England, and later became a supporter of women's suffrage, and helped found the Society for the Promotion of Employment for Women and the feminist periodical The Englishwoman’s Journal. Anna Brownell Jameson was a close friend of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ottilie von Goethe, and Lady Byron. Literary critics have begun to consider her one of the foremost women of letters of early Victorian England.
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The sixteen women featured in this biographical collection were either notable as sovereigns or for their actions in some way. I'd never heard of seven of these famous females and my knowledge of the other nine ranges from a little to a reasonable amount.
The three I was most interested in were Zenobia, Beatrice Cenci,and Charlotte Corday. The last named was a young French woman who sacrificed her own life in hope to save her family by gaining admittance to see the 'monster' Marat and murdering him with a knife. She waited to be arrested, knowing full well she'd be guillotined. She reputedly showed no fear whatsoever on her way to the block. She was as beautiful as she was brave and her death was such a waste of life, just like Joan of Arc's.
As for the author's style, I found her abilities okay, but she came across as a timid writer. By that I mean there were instances when she'd allude to something terrible but wouldn't delve into it. For instance, when describing the undeserved public execution of three members of the Cenci family, the author mentions in brief Lucrezia's(Beatrice Cenci's step-mother), and then states:
"The particulars of Lucrezia's execution are disgusting and horrible; for the sake of human nature, such atrocities should be buried in eternal silence."
Can't say I agree, as I'm left wanting to know what happened. Comments like the above is like stating, "Let's forget all those bad things the Nazis did." This attitude to me is a bit like brushing something nasty under a carpet. This poor woman was abused by her husband. This man had no love for any of his children except when Beatrice grew into a young and beautiful woman he began to soften towards her. Was this the beginning of his paternal love for his daughter? No, it was his growing LUST for her.
When Beatrice realised that her father intended to have sex with she and Lucrezia orchestrated this vile man's murder. But they got found out. Despite the atrocities that happened to them the Italian law was on the murdered man's side. They killed a monster and as reward they were tortured and publicly executed. More wastes of life.
Call it morbid fascination if you will, but when recalling historical events, lay down all important occurrences and let the reader decide to read or jump onto a less horrible paragraph. Surely historical accounts should be given in all their gory details and let the reader decide if they want to read anything gruesome or whether to skip. I found myself skipping a few mundane sections in the other chapters, as at times I felt I wasn't learning about whomever the chapter was dedicated to, but kept hearing about all these other people who did nothing exciting.
The section on Berengeria left me wondering why she was included in this book, as this section predominantly focuses on her husband, King Richard I of England. This chapter seems out of place in a collection about celebrated females.
Listed below are the women featured in this book in the order which they appear:
Semiramis
Nictoris
Zenobia
Boadicea
Berengeria
Laura
Joan of Arc
Isabella of Castile
Beatrice Cenci
Ann Boleyn
Lady Jane Gray
Leonora d' Este
Catherine Alexiewna
Maria Theresa
Charlotte Corday
Josephine… (mer)
The three I was most interested in were Zenobia, Beatrice Cenci,and Charlotte Corday. The last named was a young French woman who sacrificed her own life in hope to save her family by gaining admittance to see the 'monster' Marat and murdering him with a knife. She waited to be arrested, knowing full well she'd be guillotined. She reputedly showed no fear whatsoever on her way to the block. She was as beautiful as she was brave and her death was such a waste of life, just like Joan of Arc's.
As for the author's style, I found her abilities okay, but she came across as a timid writer. By that I mean there were instances when she'd allude to something terrible but wouldn't delve into it. For instance, when describing the undeserved public execution of three members of the Cenci family, the author mentions in brief Lucrezia's(Beatrice Cenci's step-mother), and then states:
"The particulars of Lucrezia's execution are disgusting and horrible; for the sake of human nature, such atrocities should be buried in eternal silence."
Can't say I agree, as I'm left wanting to know what happened. Comments like the above is like stating, "Let's forget all those bad things the Nazis did." This attitude to me is a bit like brushing something nasty under a carpet. This poor woman was abused by her husband. This man had no love for any of his children except when Beatrice grew into a young and beautiful woman he began to soften towards her. Was this the beginning of his paternal love for his daughter? No, it was his growing LUST for her.
When Beatrice realised that her father intended to have sex with she and Lucrezia orchestrated this vile man's murder. But they got found out. Despite the atrocities that happened to them the Italian law was on the murdered man's side. They killed a monster and as reward they were tortured and publicly executed. More wastes of life.
Call it morbid fascination if you will, but when recalling historical events, lay down all important occurrences and let the reader decide to read or jump onto a less horrible paragraph. Surely historical accounts should be given in all their gory details and let the reader decide if they want to read anything gruesome or whether to skip. I found myself skipping a few mundane sections in the other chapters, as at times I felt I wasn't learning about whomever the chapter was dedicated to, but kept hearing about all these other people who did nothing exciting.
The section on Berengeria left me wondering why she was included in this book, as this section predominantly focuses on her husband, King Richard I of England. This chapter seems out of place in a collection about celebrated females.
Listed below are the women featured in this book in the order which they appear:
Semiramis
Nictoris
Zenobia
Boadicea
Berengeria
Laura
Joan of Arc
Isabella of Castile
Beatrice Cenci
Ann Boleyn
Lady Jane Gray
Leonora d' Este
Catherine Alexiewna
Maria Theresa
Charlotte Corday
Josephine… (mer)
Hilarious Political Correctness by a Victorian Writer.
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This book is an interesting look at the land that became known as Canada. Jameson is no snob, willing to spend the night sleeping on boulders and interested in the language and customs of the Indigenous people. For someone of her time period, she is fairly enlightened on this subject, pointing out the hypocrisy in the settler population about civilization versus savagery, and going out of her way to meet and speak with Indigenous people. It’s still an uncomfortable read for a 21st-century reader in that regard, though.
With regard to the places Jameson visits, I was particularly excited to see my hometown get name-checked, and when she visited the area where my boyfriend’s family is from, I had to mentally fit in where she would have been. Same with her trip to Sault Ste. Marie, because we were just there last year.
The book contains a few maps, which are handy, and a fair number of footnotes, some of which are less handy than others. I also found it hard to appreciate the appropriateness of some of the epigraphs, because a few were in German and not translated or alluded to in the chapters that they introduced.
Overall I liked this pretty well. Maybe more than it deserves, because of mentioning my hometown :)… (mer)