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| - Anna Brownell Jameson (May 17, 1794 - March 17, 1860), British writer, was born in Dublin.
Her father, Denis Brownell Murphy (d. 1842), was a miniature and enamel painter. He moved to England in 1798 with his family, and eventually settled at Hanwell, near London.
At sixteen years of age, Anna became governess in the family of Charles Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester. In 1821 she was engaged to Robert Jameson. The engagement was broken off, and Anna Murphy accompanied a young pupil to Italy, writing in a fictitious character a narrative of what she saw and did. She gave this diary to a bookseller on condition of receiving a guitar if he secured any profits. Colburn ultimately published it as The Diary of an Ennuyée (1826), which attracted much attention. Anna Murphy was governess to the children of Edward Littleton, later know as Baron Hatherton, from 1821 to 1825, when she married Robert Jameson.
The marriage proved unhappy. In 1829, when Jameson was appointed puisne judge in the island of Dominica the couple separated without regret, and Mrs. Jameson visited Continental Europe again with her father.
The first work which displayed her powers of original thought was her Characteristics of Women (1832).
These analyses of William Shakespeare's heroines are remarkable for their delicacy of critical insight and fineness of literary touch. They are the result of a penetrating but essentially feminine mind, applied to the study of individuals of its own sex, detecting characteristics and defining differences not perceived by the ordinary critic and entirely overlooked by the general reader.
German literature and art had aroused much interest in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Mrs. Jameson paid her first visit to the German Confederation in 1833. The conglomerations of hard lines, cold colours and pedantic subjects which decorated Munich under the patronage of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, were new to the world, and Mrs Jameson's enthusiasm first gave them an English reputation.
In 1836, Mrs Jameson was summoned to Canada by her husband, who had been appointed chief justice of the province of Upper Canada. He failed to meet her at New York, and she was left to make her way alone in winter to Toronto. Here she began the travelogue of her journey, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, which was later published in Britain in 1839. After eight months of travelling and writing in Canada, she felt it useless to prolong a life far from all ties of family happiness and opportunities for a woman of her class and education. Before leaving, she undertook a journey to the depths of the Indian settlements in Canada; she explored Lake Huron, and saw much of emigrant and Aboriginal life unknown to colonial travellers. She returned to Great Britain in 1837.
At this period Mrs Jameson began making careful notes of the chief private art collections in and near London. (en)
- Anna Jameson (* 19. Mai 1797 in Dublin; † 17. März 1860 in London) war eine englische Schriftstellerin:
Anna Jameson (spr. dschehms'n), empfing durch ihren Vater, den Miniaturmaler Murphy, früh schon künstlerische Anregung und wurde als Schriftstellerin zuerst durch ihr auf einer italienischen Reise geschriebenes Tagebuch Diary of an ennuyée (1826, 3. Aufl. 1838) bekannt.
Sie war eine langjährige Freundin der Ottilie von Goethe (1796-1872), der Schwiegertochter Goethes, die sie während ihrer Reisen an den Rhein, nach Weimar und Italien oft besuchte.
1827 vermählte sie sich mit dem Advokaten Robert Jameson, lebte aber später getrennt von ihm, besuchte auf weiteren Reisen Deutschland, Frankreich und Nordamerika und starb am 17. März 1860 in London.
Ihre Schriften sind:
*Loves of the poets (1829);
*Characteristics of the female characters of Shakespeare, eine feine Schilderung der Shakespeareschen Frauengestalten (1832);
*Visits and sketches at home and abroad (1834, 4 Bde.);
*Winter-studies and summer-rambles in Canada (1838).
ferner die der Kunstgeschichte und Kunstkritik angehörenden Werke:
*Memoirs of the early Italian painters (1845, 2 Bde.);
*Sacred and legendary art (1848, 4. Aufl. 1865), worin sie die Entwicklung der religiösen Geschichte darlegt, wie sie uns in den Werken der Malerei entgegentritt;
*Legends of the monastic orders (1850, 3. Aufl. 1866);
*Legends of the Madonna (3. Aufl. 1865) und die für die Ikonographie wichtige
*Scriptural and legendary history of our Lord (mit Lady Eastlake, 1859–64, 2 Bde.
*A commonplace book of thoughts memories and fancies (1854).
Sie gab auch eine englische Bearbeitung der Schauspiele der Prinzessin Amalie von Sachsen unter dem Titel: Pictures of the social life of Germany (1840) heraus. (de)
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