I just got around to looking her up, and she seems to have been quite a figure in literary circles. (And it seems she was the artist in my new\/old volumes.)<\/p>\n
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett<\/em>, 1845-1846 Vol. 2<\/p>\n “I like Mrs. Jameson nevertheless –I like her more. She appreciates you–and it is my turn to praise for that, now. I am to see her again to-morrow morning, when she has the goodness to promise to bring some etchings of her own, her illustrations of the new essays, for me to look at.” (p5) <\/p>\n “Mrs. Jameson came late to-day, at five–and was hurried and could not stay ten minutes, but showed me her etchings and very kindly left a ‘Dead St. Cecilia’ which I admired most, for its beautiful lifelessness.” (p. 9)<\/p>\n I also found her Shakespeare’s Heroines<\/a> and a rather dense theoretical piece<\/a> on her that also includes a brief biography. It claims that in the 1820s and 30s she was “one of the first women to make a reputation … as a multi-faceted professional writer”. A biography of Jane Barker, to give just one example, makes similar claim, but for a woman living a century earlier.<\/p>\n Mind you, being a journalist I should know how many repetitive “firsts” there are in the world, in all sorts of areas.<\/p>\n The letters material comes from questia.com, a reasonably cheap subscription site that shows the real possibilities of the web. It boasts the full texts, fully searchable, of a huge number of books, even if it is a sometimes uneven selection with a bias to those out of copyright. Just imagine this, but the entire contents of every new book published, and gradually most of the older ones too: an entire on-line British Library. It must come one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just got around to looking her up, and she seems to have been quite a figure in literary circles. (And it seems she was the artist in my new\/old volumes.) From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846 Vol. 2 “I like Mrs. Jameson nevertheless –I like her more. She appreciates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}