Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters (The by Judith Johnston

By Judith Johnston

Anna Brownwell Jameson (1794-1869) used to be a important determine within the London international of letters and artwork within the early Victorian interval, and a big feminist author. Her buddies incorporated such figures as Harriet Martineau, girl Byron, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This examine considers her lifestyles and works, utilizing a unique Jameson paintings because the significant concentration of every bankruptcy. the writer considers the actual non-fiction discourse during which the paintings is written, in addition to such concerns as gender and colonialism. prepared chronologically, the publication additionally charts the expansion and improvement of a made up our minds feminism within the very important years of the early Victorian interval, and compares Jameson to her contemporaries.

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