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Jameson, Anna Brownell

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Jameson, Anna Brownell (1794–1860), first attracted attention in 1826 with A Lady's Diary (later re-titled The Diary of an Ennuyée), describing a visit to Italy. The work for which she is now chiefly remembered is Characteristics of Women (1832, later known as Shakespeare's Heroines), dedicated to Fanny Kemble. Shakespeare she saw as ‘the Poet of Womankind’, whose heroines display all the aspects and complexities of womanhood. She was a close friend of the Brownings and of M. R. Mitford.

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Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson

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Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson , 1794–1860, English essayist, b. Dublin. The diary of her travels on the Continent as governess to a wealthy family was later published as The Diary of an Ennuyée (1826). Jameson's works—especially Shakespeare's Heroines (1932)—were popular in her day, but only Sacred and Legendary Art (1848–60; ed. by E. M. Hurll, 1896) had lasting currency.

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