Anna Brownell Jameson
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"Had I never visited Italy, I think I should never have understood the word picturesque". --Anna Brownell Jameson, 1820 |
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Anna Brownell Jameson (17 May 1794 - 17 March 1860) was the first Anglo-Irish art historian. Born in Ireland, she migrated to England at the age of four, becoming a well-known British writer and contributor to nineteenth-century thought on a range of subjects including early feminism, art history (particularly sacred art), travel, Shakespeare, poets, and German culture. Jameson was connected to some of the most prominent names of the period including Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning, Harriet Martineau, Ottilie von Goethe (the daughter-in-law of Goethe), Lady Byron, Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon.
See also
- Characteristics of women, moral, poetical and historical (1832) by Anna Brownell Jameson