Memoirs of the Life of Anna Jameson (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. HER LAST DAYS. After this temporary departure from her own cherished and favourite path, Mrs. Jameson returned once more to her projects of travel and to the artexpositions which were her most characteristic work. During the preceding five or six years, her home had been alternately with her two sisters Eliza and Charlotte at Ealing, or in London with her sister Camilla. Now, before quitting England with every intention of thenceforth passing the greater portion of her time on the Continent, she removed with her sisters, at their express desire, from Ealing to Brighton, a place she herself simply detested, but for which they had a special fancy, and whither they felt now more particularly attracted, from the fact that their sister Camilla had removed thither some few months previously. Having thus reconstructed the 'family nest, ' as she loved to call it, Mrs. Jameson went to Paris, where she found the Brownings, Mme. Mohl, and divers other friends established more or less temporarily; and here she began at once to occupy herself with the preparation of a second edition of her 'Madonna book.' For this the whole of the larger illustrations required to be redone. In the first edition of this volume, in lieu of attempting, with her failing sight, the etchings on copper that had accompanied the numerous woodcuts of the first volume of the series (in which I had the privilege of assisting her, being with her at the time), she mentioned in the.preface that the drawings for this had been achieved ' by a less tedious, but also less effective process, ' and, as it proved, likewise a far less durable one, for the plates could not last out even one more edition, and she had resolved on the transfer of the whole to copper, and concluded on having them execu.