JAMESON, ANNA BROWNELL English writer on art, was born in Dublin on May 17, the daughter of Denis Brownell Murphy, a miniature and enamel painter. Anna went to England as a governess, and married, in 1825, Robert Jameson. The marriage was unhappy, and when Jameson was appointed a colonial judge the two parted. Anna Jameson is remembered for her essays on Shakespeare's heroines, Character istics of Shakespeare's Women (1832), and her books on sacred art : Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art (1848), Legends of the Monastic Orders (185o), Legends of the Madonna (1852), and History of Our Lord as represented in Art (1864), completed by Lady Eastlake.
Anna Jameson also took a keen interest in questions affecting the education, occupations and maintenance of her own sex. On these subjects she wrote Sisters of Charity (1855) and The Communion of Labour (1856). She died on March 57, 186o.
See Geraldine Macpherson, Memoirs of Mrs. Jameson (1878), and Mrs. Stuart Erskine, Letters and Friendship (1915).