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Anna Brownell Jameson

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Dublin, Ireland

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Anna Brownell Jameson (May 17, 1794 - March 17, 1860) was an Anglo-Irish writer and feminist.

Her father, Denis Brownell Murphy was a miniature and enamel painter. He moved to England in 1798 with his family, and eventually settled at Hanwell, London.

Anna Jameson spent the winter and spring of 1836–37 in Toronto with her husband, Robert Sympson Jameson, attorney general of Upper Canada. She travelled extensively in southern Ontario during the summer of 1837, recording her impressions through her sketches, watercolours and writing in Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838).

Jameson's first work, Characteristics of Women (1832) displayed her powers of original thought. Her analyses of William Shakespeare's heroines are remarkable fo ...more

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Average rating: 3.51 · 153 ratings · 17 reviews · 270 distinct works • Similar authors

	Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada 3.43 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1838 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical 3.68 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1832 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies 3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1855 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diary of an Ennuyee liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1826 — 142 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of Charlotte Corday 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of celebrated female sovereigns 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1852 — 156 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada: Selections 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts; Forming the Second Series of Sacred and Legendary Art 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1976 — 131 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sketches in Canada, and Rambles Among the Red Men really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Violet, the amethyst, signified love and truth; or passion and suffering.”
― Anna Jameson

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CanLit Challenge: Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada by Anna Brownell Jameson, #28	1	4	May 24, 2011 01:13PM
CanLit Challenge: Roughing it In the Bush by Susanna Moodie, #31	1	7	May 26, 2011 10:16AM
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