Anna Jameson

Anna Jameson

Anna Jameson (born May 19, 1797 in Dublin , † March 17, 1860 in London ) was an English writer and worked as a governess for more than 15 years of her life .

Live and act

Anna Jameson (spr. Dschehms'n), received artistic inspiration from her father, the miniature painter Murphy, at an early age and was first known as a writer through her diary Diary of an ennuyée (1826, 3rd edition 1838), which was written on an Italian trip . She was a long-time friend of Ottilie von Goethe (1796–1872), Goethe's daughter-in-law, whom she often visited on her trips to the Rhine, Weimar and Italy.

In 1827 she married the lawyer Robert Jameson, but later lived separately from him, visited Germany, France and North America on further trips and died on March 17, 1860 in London.

Fonts

• Loves of the poets (1829);
• Characteristics of the female characters of Shakespeare , a fine description of Shakespeare's female figures (1832);
• Visits and sketches at home and abroad (1834, 4 vols.);
• Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada (1838).
• The Relative Position of Mothers and Governesses (1846)

Furthermore, the works belonging to art history and art criticism:

• Memoirs of the early Italian painters (1845, 2 vols.);
• Sacred and legendary art (1848, 4th ed. 1865), in which she explains the development of religious history as we encounter it in the works of painting;
• Legends of the monastic orders (1850, 3rd ed. 1866);
• Legends of the Madonna (3rd ed. 1865) and those important for iconography
• Scriptural and legendary history of our Lord (with Lady Eastlake, 1859–64, 2 vols.);
• A commonplace book of thoughts memories and fancies (1854).

She also edited an English adaptation of the plays of Princess Amalie of Saxony under the title: Pictures of the social life of Germany (1840).

biography

• Gerardine Macpherson: Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson author of "Sacred and legendary art" etc. Longmans et al., London 1878.
• Karsten Hein: Ottilie von Goethe (1796–1872). Biography and literary relationships of Goethe's daughter-in-law (= European university publications. Series 1: German Language and Literature , Volume 1782). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-631-37438-0 (dissertation University of Düsseldorf 2000, 398 pages).

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Jameson in the catalog of the German National Library