WorkAnna Brownell Jameson

Characteristics of Women

Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical ("Women of Shakespeare")

Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) · 1832

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Documented 1834–1845

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Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1834—

Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

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“Mrs Jameson inveighs against ridicule as if she had sat at the feet of A.W. Schlegel… "The word vulgar is to be used as the reverse of poetical!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller names 'Mrs Jameson' explicitly and discusses her treatment of 'Beatrice' (a Shakespeare character) and the 'humourous woman'.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“from the refined perception of character, admirable suggestions are given in her "Women of Shakspeare," and "Loves of the Poets.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.