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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860)

Jameson, Anna Brownell. An Irish miscellaneous writer; born (Murphy) in Dublin, May 17, 1794; died in London, March 17, 1860. She was the daughter of a noted artist, and began her literary work with ‘The Diary of an Ennuyée’ (1826). Then followed ‘Loves of the Poets’ (1829); ‘Celebrated Female Sovereigns’ (1831); ‘Characteristics of Women’; ‘Companion to the Public Picture Galleries of London’ (1842); ‘Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters’ (1845), edited; ‘Sacred and Legendary Art’ (1848–52), not quite complete; etc.