A Commonplace Book Of Thoughts, Memories And Fancies: Original And Selected

by Anna Brownell Jameson

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Genres: Nonfiction

390 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1855

About the author

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 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.