Anna Brownell Jameson


Life
1794-1860 [née Murphy; invar. Mrs. Jameson on t.p.]; b. Dublin; dg. Brownell Murphy, miniaturist and painter in ordinary to Princess Charlotte; moved to North of England from childhood; governess of Marquis of Winchester at 16; friendship with the Kembles, contact and close friend of Brownings, and the Carlyles; met Robert Jameson, a young barrister, engaged and engagement then broken off; served as governess to Lord Hatherton; renewed engagement to Jameson and married, 1824; published anon., A Lady’s Diary (Colburn 1826,), later re-titled The Diary of an Ennuyée, recounting an Italian trip; issued The Loves of the Poets (1829) on the influence of female beauty and virtue on men of genius - later reissued as The Romance of Biography (1837), ‘submitted to the public with a feeling of timidity almost painful’ (Pref.); and then Celebrated Female Sovereigns (1831);
 
separated from Jameson due to ‘incompatibility of temperament’ [JMC]; accompanied father on tour of Europe, resulting in travel works devoted to art; wrote the essays in Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical (1832), decorated with her own ills. and afterward known as Shakespeare’s Heroines - properly was dedicated to Fanny Kemble and treating of 25 heroines in his plays which categorised them by intellect, passion [eroticism], affections and history, and styling Shakespeare as the ‘Poet of Womankind’; assisted Walter Scott with his revised edition of Count Anthony Hamilton’s Memoirs of Gramont (1846);
 
issued Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad (1834), after second trip; joined her husband in Canada, 1836; publ. Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838); settled in England again within a year; publ. Tales and Miscellanies (1838); translated plays of Princess Amelia of Saxony, as Pictures of Social Life in Germany (1840), with intro. and notes; trans from Dr. Waagen, Rubens, His Life and Genius [n.d.]; Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters and of the Progress of Painting in Italy (1845); Memoirs and Essays in Art, Literature, and Social Morals [n.d.]; Sacred and Legendary Art (1848);
 
published A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memoiries, and Fancies, Original and Selected (1854); Sisters of Charity, Catholic and Protestant, At Home and Abroad (1855); amelioration of position of women, Lectures on the Social Employments of Women and The Communion of Labour; received a Civil List pension; wrote The History of Our Lord Exemplified in Works of Art, with that of his Types, St John the Baptist, and Other Persons of the Old and New Testaments, completed by Lady Eastlake; d. 17, 1860; Denis Bronwell Murphy illustrated Beauties (1833). CAB ODNB JMC DIW OCEL OCIL

[ Who was Fanny Kemble? - see note - infra. ]

Anna Brownell Jameson (née Murphy) - c. 1845
Calotype by David Octavio Hill - National Galleries of Scotland
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ABJ - Most commonly called Mrs Jameson on contemporary title-pages; otherwise Mrs. Murphy; Mrs Anna Brownell Jameson and even Anna (Brownell Murphy) Jameson, as in the National Galleries, Scotland - online - where she is called as an Irish art historian and essayist. COPAC searches are best addressed to <Mrs. Jameson>— online. ]

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Works
The following list has been extracted from COPAC which contains 1278 citations for Mrs Jameson [Anna Brownell Jameson; Mrs. Murphy]
WORKS
  • Diary of an Ennuyé [New edn.} (London: Henry Colburn 1826), 380p; 20cm. [half-title Lady’s Diary].
  • [Anon.,] The Loves of the Poets., 2 vols. (London: S. & R. Bentley 1829), 8o. [reiss. as Characteristics of Women [..., &c.] (1832); see details].
  • Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters: and of the Progress of Painting in Italy. From Cimabue to Bassano [Knight’s weekly volume], 2 vols. (London: C. Knight & Co. 1845), ill. [pls., ports., 16cm - see contents].
  • Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical with Fifty Vignette Etchings, 2 vols. (London: Saunders and Otley 1832) [see details].
  • Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London (London: Saunders and Otley 1844), xl, 413pp. [see contents].
  • A Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and near London: with Catalogues of the Pictures, accompanied by critical, historical, and biographical notices, and copious indexes to facilitate reference [...]. In two parts 2 vols. (London: John Murray 1842), 20 cm. [see contents].
  • Sacred and Legendary Art. [half-title: Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art (London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1848), ill. [see contents].
  • Legends of the Monastic Orders, as represented in the fine arts: forming the second series of [Sacred and Legendary Art] (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1850), xlviii, 481 [see contents]
  • Sketches in Canada; and Rambles Among the Red Men [New edn.] (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1852), [2] 314pp.; and Do[?]., as Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada: Selections, intro. By Clara Thomas [New Canadian Library, 46] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 1965), 72pp., ill.
  • Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts: forming the third series of Sacred and legendary art by Mrs. Jameson; illustrated by etchings and woodcuts [Second edn. corrected and enlarged] (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts 1857), lxxv, 342pp., [1lf.; 26 lvs. of pls., ills., 21cm.; see contents]
  • The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: with that of His Types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament commenced by the late Mrs. Jameson, continued and completed by Lady Eastlake [Medical Heritage Library; 2nd edn.] (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green 1865); Do. [3rd edn.] (London: Longmans, Green 1872), ill., [pl.; 22 cm.]
  • The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second: a series of portraits, illustrating the diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon, and other contemporary writers. With memoirs biographical and critical[,] by Mrs. Jameson ... The portraits from copies made for Her late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, by Mr. Murphy (London: publ. for H. Colburn by R. Bentley 1833), ix, [2], [5]-222; see details].
  • A Common-Place Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies Original and Selected by Mrs Jameson, with illustrations and etchings (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1854), xvi, [2], 371, [1]pp., ill., 20 cm. [see details]
  • Sisters of Charity, Catholic and Protestant, Abroad and At Home [A Lecture] (London 1855), 8vo.
  • The Communion of Labour: A Second Lecture on the Social Employments of Women by Mrs. Jameson (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts 1856), vi., 1 lf., 156pp.
  • Sisters of Charity and The Communion of Labour: Two Lectures on the Social Employments of Women [New edn., enl. & improved with pref. letter to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, Pres. of the National Assocation for the Promotion of Social Science, on the present condition and requirements of the women of England (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts 1859), lii, 148pp.; 17 cm. [verso of half title: London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square.]
  • A Hand-Book to the Courts of Modern Sculpture [in the Crystal Palace [Sydenham] (1854), 8vo.
  • [ed., with Walter Scott,] Memoirs of the Count de Grammont [Anthony Hamilton (London: Swan Sonnenschein 1890), viii. 408pp., 8o. [containing the History of the English Court under Charles II]; Do., as Memoirs of Count Grammont by Count Anthony Hamilton; tr. with notes by Horace Walpole, with additional notes and biographical sketches by Sir Walter Scott and Mrs. Anna Jameson; with portraits of the “Windsor beauties”, and other illustrations [Mémoires du comte de Grammont (1646-1720)] (Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co. 1888).
  • Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns, 2 vols. (London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley 1831), 19 cm. [see contents].
  • Peter Paul Rubens, His Life and Genius, trans. by Robert R. Noel from Ueber den Maler: Petrus Paulus Rubens, of Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794-1868) (London: Saunders and Otley 1840), xxiv, 132pp.
  • Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: with Tales and Miscellanies[,] now first collected, and a new edn. of the “Diary of an ennuyée”, 4 vols. (London: Saunders and Otley 1834) [see details].
  • Studies, Stories, and Memoirs (Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1866), vi, 1 leaf [9], 408pp.; Do., (Boston: J. R. Osgood 1875), 408pp., [1] lf. Of pls.
  • Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1857), xii, 502pp., [1] lf. of pls.
CORRESPONDENCE
  • Letters of Anna Jameson to Ottilie von Goethe, ed. by G.H. Needler (London: Oxford University Press 1939), xxv, 247,pp. [incl. geneal. tables., front., port., facs.; 23 cm.]
  • Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships (1812-1860), ed. Mrs. Steuart Erskine (London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. 1915), 350pp., col. Front., pls., ports., facs. 23 cm.
ANTHOLOGIES & COLLECTIONS
  • Leah S. Marcus, ed., As You Like It: Authoritative Text, Sources and Contexts [Norton critical] (NY: W.W. Norton & Company [2012]), xi, 467pp. [incls. her Rosalind and Edmund Dowden’s ’As You Like It as Escape’].
  • Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors: Victorian Writing by Women on Women, ed. Susan Hamilton [2nd edn.] (Ontario: Orchard Park; N.Y.: Broadview Press 2004), xxvii, 272pp., incls. Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860); “The Milliners”; Harriet Martineau (1802-1876); “Female Industry”; Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904); “Celibacy v. Marriage”; “What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?”;; “The Education of Women, and How it Would be Affected by University Examinations”; “‘Criminals, Idiots, Women, And Minors’”; “Wife-torture in England”. Each with biographical note on authors.
  • Women and Empire, 1750-1939, “India” [being Vol. 4], ed. Cheryl Cassidy (London: Routledge 2021), incls. – 9: ‘Condition of the Indian Women’, from Winter Studies and Summer Rambles (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838); 10. ‘An Uneventful Season’, from My Canadian Journal, 1872-1878, Lady Dufferin.
  • Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide, ed., Marion Ann Taylor; Agnes Choi, assoc. ed. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic [2012]). xvii 585pp. [incls. Anna Brownell Jameson].
  • Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900: An Anthology of Criticism, ed. Ann Thompson and Sasha Roberts ( Manchester UP 1997), xv, 283pp. [invls. excerpt from Anna Jameson, “Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical”].
  • Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth-century ed. by Joanne Shattock, Joanne Wilkes, Katharine Newey, Valerie Sanders (London: Routledge 2021), incls. - Volume I. Life - 1.] Lady Sydney Morgan, ‘Prefatory Address’, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence, W. Hepworth Dixon, ed., 3 vols (London: Wm H. Allen & Co, 1862), Vol I, pp. 1-3. 2.] Harriet Martineau, ‘Introduction to Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography’, Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, with Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman, 3 vols (London: Smith, Elder, 1877), Vol. I, pp.1-8. 32.] Anon, ‘Mrs. Delany’, The Westminster Review (21 (April 1862), pp.374-376. ... 35.] Frances Power Cobbe, ‘Personal Recollections of Mrs. Somerville,’ The Quarterly Review, 136 (January 1874), pp. 76-77, 96-103. ... 36.] ‘Memoir of Annie Keary. By her Sister,’ The Athenaeum (18 November 1882), pp. 654-655.37. ... 40.] [Anonymous], ‘Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography,’ The Athenaeum (17 March 1877), pp. 343-346.41. 33.] Percy Fitzgerald, ‘Stage Illusion – Mechanism’, The World Behind the Scenes, (1881) pp.1-534. 
  • Incl. in Jameson, Cowden Clarke, Kemble, Cushman ed. by Gail Marshall [Great Shakespeareans; Vol. 7] (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 2014), 224pp.
Available at COPAC - online; acessed 25.08.2023.
Bibliographical details
Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters: and of the Progress of Painting in Italy. From Cimabue to Bassano [Knight’s weekly volume], 2 vols. (London: C. Knight & Co. 1845), ill. [pls., ports., 16cm].CONTENTS: Vol. 1. Giovanni Cimabue; Giotto; Lorenzo Ghiberti; Masaccio; Filippo Lippi and Angelico da Fiesole; Benozzo Gozzoli; Andrea Castagno and Luca Signorelli; Domenico dal Ghirlandajo; Andrea Mantegna; The Bellini; Pietro Perugino; Francesco Raibolini, called Il Francia; Fra Bartolomeo, called also Baccio della Porta and Il Frate. Vol. 2. Leonardo da Vinci; Michael Angelo; Andrea del Sarto; Raphael Sanzio d’Urbino; The scholars of Raphael; Correggio and Giorgione and their scholars; Parmigiano; Giorgione; Titan; Tintoretto; Paul Veronese; Jacope Bassano.
REPRINTS
  • Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters: and of the Progress of Painting in Italy: from Cimabue to Bassano. A new ed., rev. throughout by the author, and with much additional matter (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street 1859), v.; 12mo.
  • Memoirs of early Italian painters and of the progress of painting in Italy: from Cimabue to Bassano. [new edn.] (London: Murray 1868) xix, 328pp., ports.
  • Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters: and of the Progress of Painting in Italy, Cimabue to Bassano Jameson Mrs. (Anna) 1794-1860 [new edn.] (London: Murray 1891), xix, 328pp.: ports.; 20 cm.

Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical with Fifty Vignette Etchings, 2 vols. (London: Saunders and Otley 1832) [see details]. [half-title: Shakespeare’s female characters; “All the etchings are by the author”; ded. to Fanny Kemble].
REPRINTS
  • Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, 2 vols. in 1 (Annapolis: printed b J[eremiah]. Hughes 1833) [called First Edition],
  • Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical and Historical[,] by Mrs Jameson [New edn.] 2 vols. (London: Saunders and Otley 1858), x, 298pp.; 344pp.; ill., 21cm
  • Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical and Historical [New edn..] (London; NY: G. Routledge 1870), viii, 431pp.
  • Shakspeare’s Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical [Bohn’s standard library] (London: G. Bell & sons 1898), x, 341pp.; 19 cm.
  • Shakespeare’s Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical, ill. by W. Paget [Temple Classics] (London: Dent 1904), viii, 342; 19cm./8vo
  • Shakespeare’s heroines by Mrs. Jameson; with many decorative designs by R. Anning Bell [Miranda’s library] (London NY: J.M. Dent & Co.; E.P. Dutton & Co. 1905), xi, 379pp.: ill.; 20 cm. [half-title: Characteristics of women].
  • Do., as Shakespeare’s Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical [by] Anna Murphy Jameson [sic], ed. Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley (Ontario: Broadview Press 2005), 464pp. [a selection of her writings on women; see contents].
CONTENTS [Hoeckley, ed., Shakespeare’s Heroines]: Introduction; Anna Murphy Jameson: a brief chronology; A note on the text; “Shakespeare’s heroines” [the text]. Appendix A: Jameson’s writing on women, work, and acting. 1. From Sisters of Charity, Catholic and Protestant, Abroad and At Home (1855); 2. From The Communion of Labour (1856); 3. “Mrs. Siddons” in Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad (1834). Appendix B: Jameson’s correspondence. 1: Bessie Rayner Parkes, 1856-59; 2: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1856; 3: Frances Anne Kemble, 1831-32; 4: Ottilie von Goethe, 1836. Appendix C: Contemporary reviews of Characteristics of Women. 1: The Monthly Review (1832); 2: The Literary Gazette (1832); 3: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1833). Appendix D: Conduct Books. 1: From Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (1839); 2: From John Ruskin, “Of Queen’s Gardens” in Sesame and Lilies (1865). Appendix E: Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare Criticism. 1: From William Richardson, “On Shakespeare’s Imitation of Female Characters” in Essays on Shakespeare’s Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff [and] on his Imitation of Female Characters (1789); 2: From William Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays (1817); 3: From Frances Anne Kemble, “Notes on Macbeth No. II” in Notes Upon Some of Shakespeare’s Plays (1882).

Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London (London: Saunders and Otley 1844), xl, 413pp.; 20 cm. [half-title: Private galleries of art in London]. CONTENTS: The gallery of Her Majesty the Queen; The Bridgewater Gallery; The Sutherland Gallery; The Grosvenor Gallery; The collection of the Marquess of Lansdowne; The collection of the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Peel; The collection of Mr. Rogers.
 
A Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and near London: with Catalogues of the Pictures, accompanied by critical, historical, and biographical notices, and copious indexes to facilitate reference […]. In two parts 2 vols. (London: John Murray 1842), 20 cm. CONTENTS: .Part I. Introduction; National Gallery; Windsor Castle; Part II. Hampton Court; Dulwich Gallery; Barry’s pictures; Soane’s Museum. [pagination; Part I: .pp.165-170 [“Additions to the National Gallery since March 1841”] added between pp.164 & 165. Part II: p.283 added between title- and p.283.
 
Sacred and Legendary Art, 2 vols (London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1848), ill., front., plates; 22 cm. [half-title: Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art]. CONTENTS: Vol. 1 - Containing legends of the angels and archangels, the evangelists, the apostles, the doctors of the church, and Mary Magdalene. Vol. 2 - Containing legends of the patron saints and virgin patronesses, the Greek and Latin martyrs, the early bishops, the hermits, and the warrior saints of Christendom. [Sacred and Legendary Art.] Do., [Second edn.] (London 1850), 8º. Bibliographical references and index.
 
Legends of the Monastic Orders, as represented in the fine arts: forming the second series of [Sacred and Legendary Art] (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1850), xlviii, 481, [1]pp., xi lvs. of pls., 22 cm. [printed by] “London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-street-Square.” [t.p. verso]. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; St. Benedict and the early Benedictines in Italy, France, Spain, and Flanders; The Benedictines in England and in Germany; The Reformed Benedictines; Early Royal Saints connected with the Benedictine Order; The Augustines; Orders Derived from the Augustine Rule; The Mendicant Orders; The Jesuits; The Order of the Visitation of St. Mary. Bibliographical references and Index.
2nd Series
  • Legends of the Monastic Orders: as represented in the fine arts: forming the second series of Sacred and legendary art Sacred and legendary art. series 2 [2d edn.] (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1852), xlvii, 462pp., ill. [11 unnum. lvs. of pls.; 22 cm.
  • Legends of the monastic orders as represented in the fine arts: forming the second series of sacred and legendary art Sacred and legendary art; Vol. 2 [6th edn.] (London: Longmans, Green 1880), xlvii, 461pp., ill. [11 unnum. lvs, of pls.)
3rd Series
  • Legends of the Madonna, as Represented in the Fine Arts: Forming the Third series of Sacred and Legendary Art [Series 3] (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1852), lxvi, 369, [1]pp. front.., ills., pls., 21 cm.]; Do., Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts: forming the third series of Sacred and legendary art by Mrs. Jameson; illustrated by etchings and woodcuts [Second edn. corrected and enlarged] (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts 1857), lxxv, 342pp., [1lf.; 26 lvs. of pls., ills., 21cm.; Do. [6th edn.] (London: Longmans, Green 1879), lxxv, 344pp., ills.; 21 cm.
REPRINTS
UK
  • Do. (London: Longman, .. &c. 1864), lxxv, 344pp., ill. [27] lvs. of pls.]
  • Do. [2nd edn.?] (1866]; Do. [4th edn.] (Longmans 1867); Do. [5th edn.] (1872); Do. (Longmans 1890, 1891), lxxv, 344pp.,xxvi [26] lvs. of pls., ill., 22cm.; Do. [new imp.] (Longmans 1902), lxxv, 344pp.; pls., ill.;
  • Do. [2nd edn.; Unit Lib. No. 26] (London: Unit Library Ltd. 1903);
  • Do. (London: Hutchinson [1907]), xiii, 483pp., [27] lvs. of pls. [incl. front.], 18cm.;
USA
  • Do. [another edn.; corr. & enl.] (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1881), [iii]-xviii, [19]-483pp.; Do. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1897).
The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second: a series of portraits, illustrating the diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon, and other contemporary writers. With memoirs biographical and critical[,] by Mrs. Jameson ... The portraits from copies made for Her late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, by Mr. Murphy (London: H. Colburn printed by R. Bentley 1833), ix, [2], [5]-222 [226pp.]., ill. [front. Duchess of Richmond; ports.] CONTENTS: Volume 1: Queen Catherine of Braganza; The Duchess of Cleveland; The Countess de Grammont; The Countess of Ossory; Lady Denham; Nell Gwynn. Volume 2: The Duchess of Somerset; The Duchess of Richmond; Mrs. Lawson; The Countess of Chesterfield; The Countess of Rochester; Miss Bagot; Mrs. Nott; The Countess of Southesk; Lady Bellasys; The Countess of Sunderland; Mrs. Middleton; The Countess of Northumberland; The Duchess of Portsmouth; The Duchess of Devonshire; Miss Jennings. [Denis Bronwell Murphy (d.1842), is listed as the illustrator.]
REPRINTS
  • The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second. A Series of Portraits ... with memoirs biographical and critical, by Mrs. Jameson. The portraits from copies made for her late R.H. the Princess Charlotte, by Mrs. Murphy [i.e., Anna Jameson] (London: 1838), v.; 4o.; Do. [2nd edn., enl.] (London: H. Colburn 1838).
  • Do. as Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles the Second [... &c.; 2nd edn., enl.] (London: H. Colburn 1838); Do. [3rd edn.] (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851), xxiii, 350 p., [21] lvs. of pls. (incl. front.), ill.; 27cm.
  • Court Beauties of the Reign of Charles II. From the originals in the Royal Gallery at Windsor, by Sir Peter Lely and others. Engraved in the highest style of art by Thomson, Wright, Scriven, B. Holl, Wagstaff, and T.A. Deane with memoirs by Mrs. Jameson (London: John Camden Hotten [1872], 176pp., [21] leaves of plates: ill.; 37 cm. [COPAC; Stephen Peterson @ Abebooks has Do. [title incls. ‘highest style’, publ. by John Camden Hotten, London 1872 [see online; 25.08.2023].
Note: orig. publ. in parts 1831-33; also presentation edition, Colburn [1873].
 
A Common-Place Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies Original and Selected by Mrs Jameson, with illustrations and etchings (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1854), xvi, [2], 371, [1]pp., ill., 20 cm./8o [Pt. I: Ethics and Character; Pt. II.: Literature and Art; epigraph: Un peu de chaque chose - Montaigne]; Do. [2nd edn., corr.] (Longman &c. 1855); Do. [another edn.] (NY: Appleton 1855), 329, [1], 4, [2]pp., 13cm.; Do. [New edn.] (London: Virtue 1877), xiv, 371pp., ill, [10] lvs. of pls.; 19 cm. [Gutenberg Project 2012 - online].
 
Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns, 2 vols. (London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley 1831), 19 cm. CONTENTS: CONTENTS: Vol. 1: Semiramis; Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt; Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra; Johanna I., Queen of Naples; Johanna II, of Naples; Isabella of Castile; Mary, Queen of Scots; Queen Elizabeth. Vol. 2: Christina; Anne, Queen of Great Britain; Maria Theresa, empress of Germany, and Queen of Hungary. Catherine II, of Russia.
REPRINTS
  • Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns [2nd edn., enl. & corr.], 2 vols. (London: Saunders and Otley 1834).Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns [2nd edn., enl. & corr.], 2 vols. (London: Saunders and Otley 1834), of Hungary. Catherine II, of Russia. Do., [another edn.] (NY: Harper, 1836.)
  • Do., [another edn.] (NY: Harper, 1836).
 
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: with Tales and Miscellanies[,] now first collected, and a new edn. of the “Diary of an Ennuyée”, 4 vols. (London: Saunders and Otley 1834) [Vol. 1: xiii, 301pp.; Vol. 2, vi, 366pp.; Vol. 3: 305pp.; Vol. 4: 305pp];
REPRINTS
  • Visits and Sketches at home and abroad : with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected, and a new edition of the “Diary of an ennuyée” [another edn.,] 2 vols. (NY: Harper & Bros. 1834) [Vol. 1: Sketches of art, literature, and character; Vol. 2: The False One; Halloran the Pedler; The Indian Mother; A dramatic proverb for little actors. The diary of an ennuyée.]; Do., [2nd edn.] 3 vols. (London: Saunders & Otley 1835); Do. [3rd Edn.], 2 vols. (London: London : Saunders and Otley 1839).
  • Do. [another edn; vols 2 & 3 of 3] ([S.l.:] Perlego 2011) [online; Germany - travel].

Gutenberg Project lists most popular works of Anna Brownell Jameson
1st publ. Title Cache No.
1826 The Diary of an Ennuyée (Paris: Baudry's European Library 1836) 18049
1832 The Romance of Biography, or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by the Poets [3rd Edn.; Vol. 1 of 3] (London: Saunder and Otley MDCCCXXXVII/1837 [actually 1 of 2; formerly The Loves of the Poets, 1829]. 35382
1832 Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical [Riverside Press] (Boston & NY: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1889) [afterwards Shakespeare’s Heroines] 26152
1834 Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 1 [of 3) (London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit St 1835). 36818
  Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 2 [of 3] (London: Otley & Saunders 1835). 36819
  Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, with tales and miscellanies now first collected Vol. 3 [of 3] (London: Saunders & Otley 1835). 36820
1837

The Romance of Biography, Vol 2 [of 2] (London: Saunders and Otley MDCCCXXXVII [1837]).

35416
1838 Sketches in Canada, and Rambles among the Red Men (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1852) [afterwards Summer Rambles in Canada] 35224
1852 Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts [Riverside Press] (Boston & NY: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1881). 12047
1854

A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies [The Riverside Press] (Boston & NY: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1881).

39680
—Full listing of works by Anna Brownell James (Mrs. Jameson) at Aug. 2023.

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Criticism
  • Geraldine Macpherson, Memoirs of the Life of Anna Jameson [...] by her niece, Gerardine Macpherson [Mrs Bate; 1830?-1878] (London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1878), xvii, 362pp port.; 23 cm. [half-title: Memoirs of Mrs Jameson].
  • Harriet Martineau, Biographical Sketches by Harriet Martineau (London: Macmillan and Co. 1869) incls. - V. Literary: Amilia Opie. Prof. Wilson (“Christopher North”) John Gibson Lockhart. Mary Russell Mitford. Charlotte Brontë (“Currer Bell”) Samuel Rogers. John Wilson Croker. Mrs. Marcet. Henry Hallam. Mrs. Wordsworth. Thomas de Quincey. Lord Macaulay. Mrs. Jameson. Walter Savage Landor.Harriet Devine Jump, Lives of the Great Romantics. Part III, ed. by Betty Bennett (London: Routledge 2019), incls. As No. 26: Maria Jane Jewsbury, ‘Letter to Anna Jameson’.
  • Wendy Roy, Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel (Montreal; Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press 2005), xiv, 287pp., incls. Anna Brownell Jameson, “Winter studies and Summer rambles in Canada”.
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References
Dictionary of National Biography: cites dates as supra; dg. Dr. Brownell Murphy [qv], married and separated from the speaker and att-gen. Ontario, Robert Jameson; Dairy of an Ennuyé (1826); Characteristics of Women (1832); Visits and Sketches (1834); Companion to Public Picture Galleries of London (1842); essays, incl. The House of Titian (1846), Sacred and Legendary Art (1848-52); friend of Ottilie von Goethe and Lady Byron; attention to sick nursing. Note also Denis Brownell Murphy, d.1842; miniaturist, settled in London, commanded by Princess Charlotte to copy in miniature Lely’s ‘Beauties’, purchased by Sir Gerard Noel and published as Beauties of the Court of King Charles II (1833). Oxford Guide to Literary England cites Legends of the Madonna; The House of Titian.

A. A. Kelly, ed., Wandering Women, Two Centuries of Travel Out of Ireland (Dublin: Wolfhound 1995), incl. account of Anna Brownell Jameson, who was adopted as member of Red Indian Chippewas and wrote of her adventures with them. Aee also e AA Kelly, Pillar of the House (1988), in which Ennuyée is called A Lady’s Diary (1826) and where she is called Also dg. of United Irishman miniaturist and English mother, and author of a few poems.

Justin McCarthy, ed., Irish Literature (Washington: University of America 1904) contains an extract from Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, being the story of Genevieve de Sorbigny, involved in a marriage of convenience to the Marquis of —. It includes account of Bretagne [Brittany] with description: ‘The people who inhabited the country round were a ferocious, half-civilised race, and, in general, desperate smugglers and pirates. They had been driven to this mode of life by a dreadful famine and the oppressions of the provincial tax-gatherers, and had pursued it partly from choice and partly from necessity. They had carried on for nealy half a century a constant and systematic warfare against the legal authorities of the province, in which they were generally victorious.’ Her feelings for her husband include joy at his safety, and heart-break at his destruction at the hands of mutineers. The period is pre-Revolutionary, since the infant in the story lives to be a victim of the Revolution.

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Notes
James Joyce : Joyce held a copy of Shakespeare’s Heroines (London: Dent 1910) in his Library in Trieste. (See Richard Ellmann, The Consciousness of James Joyce, Faber, p.114 [Appendix].)

Fanny Kemble (Frances Anne Kemble, 1809-93): Kemble appeared as Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1829 purportedly to save her father from bankruptcy. She was the dg. of Charles Kemble, manager of Covent Garden Theatre (London) and went on to establish a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of her time both in England and in America. In 1834 she married Pierce Butler of Philadelphia, a large-scale slave-owner in Georgia, and subsequently divorced him on the score of his infidelity, returning to London in 1846. At this period of her life she left the stage - which she did not particularly relish - and lived by Shakespearean readings though she later resumed acting. After some time touring Europe she returned to the States in 1849 - the year her husband was granted a divorce under the then laws. She became a prominent abolitionist and wrote extensively on the subject in her memoirs, returning finally to England in 1877. In religion she was evangelical and once dismissed a Catholic nurse on suspicion of attempting to convert her children. Charles Kemble (1775-1854), the son on itinerant actors and a noted Shakespearean actor, was a brother or Sarah Siddons - both Welsh by birth - and married to Marie-Therese Kemble, née de Camp. He died at home at Savile Row. Francis Anne Butler was another daughter, married to the actor Timothy Butler (1806-85) - a brother of Pierce. Her works incl. Notes on Some of Shakespeare’s Plays (1882), A Year of Consolation (1847), Record of a Girlhood (1878), Records of Later Life (1882), and Further Records, 1848–1883 (1890) as well as Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation (1863) adapted from her diary. Fanny Kemble also wrote for the stage and published poetry. (See also Joanne Shattock, Katherine Newey, et. al., eds., ed., Literary and cultural criticism from the nineteenth-century. Volume II Theatre and drama criticism, Routledge 2021).

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