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Anna Brownell Jameson : writings including Conversations on the State of Art and Literature in Germany (1837)

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841: 'Mrs Jameson's early writings -- the Ennuyee for instance -- have an adroit leaning to sentiment, which is [italics]sentimentality[end italics], & provokes one the more for the excellent taste observable & admirable even there. In her later books, I do, I confess, see much to admire. The conversations, for instance, on the state of art & literature in Germany .. oh surely, we cannot all but admire their acuteness & eloquence & high intonation.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Anna Brownell Jameson : Diary of an Ennuyee

From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Several pages are transcribed from the 'Diary of an Ennuyee'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: C.M.G. [anon]      Print: Book

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