Anna Jameson Quotes


Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.


Citations

Jameson, Anna. Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada. Vol. 1, Saunders and Otley, 1838, p. 289.

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Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson
  • Born: May 17, 1794
  • Died: March 17, 1860
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Writer, Feminist, Art Historian

Anna Brownell Jameson 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.