Anna JAMESON - lettre autographe signée

Anna JAMESON - autograph letter signed


Anna Brownell Jameson (May 17, 1794 – March 17, 1860) was a British writer and feminist.
From 1821 to 1825, she held the position of governess to the children of Edward John Littleton (1st Baron Hatherton), who would later become Baron Hatherton, when she married Robert Simpson Jameson in 1825. They had no children. Her marriage proves unhappy and the couple separate in 1829. That year, she makes a name for herself when her novel "Amours des Poètes" (Loves of the Poets) is published.
The first work illustrating her original thoughts was "Characteristics of Women" (Characteristics of Women) in 1832, which brought Anna Jameson to prominence outside England, in both Europe and North America. In the autumn of 1836, reluctantly, Anna Jameson came to Toronto to join her husband, who for three years had been the Attorney General of Upper Canada. There, she began the account of her journey, "Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada," which was published in Great Britain in 1838, was very popular and went through many editions.


« Dear Helen,
I was very glad to have the [...] letters from yourself & your dear kind mother - The verses are really charming in sentiment & expression & for her sake & yours, I shall value them - & thank you for remembering my wish - I should have sent the enclosed little autograph a week ago but have been wanting from day to day to hear something of Miss Parker. I was getting rather anxious when suddenly she appeared - personally - the letters she had written to apprise us of her movements having been by some chance delayed - and two days after herself - I am now sorry I troubled you about her - & she is sending you all her kind regards - regrets equally that you have been expecting her. hShe came direct from Tunis to Genoa & thence to Santa Lucia - after a long series of cold and stormy weather - we have now the delicious Italian Spring in all its glory & I am enjoying Rome very much - as much as an old woman can, who is no longer able to encounter much fatigue and do so much work as heretofore - Tell your dear Mother how I value the few lines she wrote to me, so kind of her - & tell her that I shall wish to return home by Marseilles for the pleasure of seeing you all again - my very kind regards to all your circle - Mrs Palmer most particularly - I hope she is better - Before Parker had just been telling me [...]


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