Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson was an Anglo-Irish art historian whose work spanned art and literary criticism, philosophy, travel writing, and feminism. She became very well known for her extensive writings. Jameson was connected to some of the most prominent names of the period including Joanna Baillie, Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning, Harriet Martineau, Ottilie von Goethe, Lady Byron, Harriet Hosmer, Ada Lovelace, Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon.

17 May 1794

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Born in the same month (May 1794): Cornelius Vanderbilt • Fanny Imlay • Ignaz Moscheles • Johann Heinrich von Mädler • Louis Léopold Robert • William Whewell