Shakespeare's Heroines Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical

Anna Jameson (aka Anna Brownell Jameson or Anna Brownell Murphy Jameson), a writer, feminist, and art historian, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1794. Recognized as an influential "cultural authority" in her time, she is considered an important figure in modern-day literary and academic circles as well. Her formative opinions on Shakespeare's female characters are joined by significant works on travel, art, and women's issues, like Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada and Sacred and Legendary Art -- bestsellers in her day and reprinted regularly ever since. Well-traveled, in her youth she worked as a governess for noted English families; later, near the end of her brief marriage to Robert Jameson, she visited him in Canada where he was then employed. In the course of her literary work she spent much time in France, Italy, and Germany, was an active voice for the nineteenth-century women's reform movement, and served as a mentor to a younger generation of feminists. She died in London, England, in 1860 Illustrator W. Paget (1863-1935), also known by Walter or "Wal" Paget, is the youngest of three well-known artist-brothers working in England at the turn of the nineteenth century. While Paget was known for his lovely, textural and detailed wash illustrations for books such as Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, and Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, he is perhaps better-remembered for being the model for his brother Sidney's greatest accomplishment -- the Sherlock Holmes character he drew for The Strand Magazine, to which Walter Paget also contributedJameson, Anna Brownell is the author of 'Shakespeare's Heroines Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical' with ISBN 9780517222645 and ISBN 0517222647.