Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada 3 Volume Paperback Set

Jameson's hugely successful 1838 description of her experiences in the Great Lakes region also includes reflections on the German Romantics.

Anna Jameson (Author)

9781108033572, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 3 November 2011

1046 pages
21.5 x 14 x 6 cm, 1.3 kg

Anna Jameson (1794–1860) was an inspirational figure to a generation of young women writers and artists including Barbara Bodichon and Bessie Rayner Parkes. Her work was reviewed by leading figures such as Mary Shelley and Charles Kingsley, and even Thomas Carlyle, though less complimentary, referred to her as the 'celebrated Mrs Jamieson'. This book, first published in 1838, secured her growing reputation as a writer of history, literary criticism and travel literature, and has been popular ever since. Inspired by a journey made to support the career of her estranged husband, one of its key themes is the condition of women, which recurs regularly in Jameson's writing. Her three-volume account of the Great Lakes region records her impressions of the weather, landscape, society and indigenous peoples, and includes literary reflections, particularly on the German Romantics. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=jamean

Volume 1: Toronto
A winter journey
Winter visits
Sleighing
Visit of Indians
Winter miseries
Clergy reserves
The tragedy of Correggio
German actresses
Sleigh-journey
Niagara in winter
Trees in Canada
Society in Toronto
Politics and parties
Fire at Toronto
A true story
Goethe's Tasso, Iphigenia, and Clavigo
A soldier of fortune
Music and musicians
Constitution of Upper Canada
Prorogation of the House of Assembly
Acts of the Legislature in 1837
On the female character
Goethe and Ekermann
Goethe's last love
Goethe's table talk
His ideas on the position of women
Criminal calendar of Toronto
Grillparzer's Sappho and Medea
Lake Ontario
Return of Spring
Village of the Credit
Erindale. Volume 2: The return of summer
Sternberg's novels
Detached thoughts
Mrs. MacMurray
Niagara in summer
Story of a slave
The rapids
Schiller's Don Carlos
A dream
The Niagara district
Buffalo
Canadian stage coaches
The emigrant
Town of Hamilton
Town of Brandtford
Forest scenery
Roads in Canada
Blandford
A forest château
The pine woods
Miss Martineau
Town of London
Women in Canada
The Talbot country
Story of an emigrant boy
Some account of Colonel Talbot
Journey to Chatham
The Post Office in Canada
The Moravian Delawares
Anecdote of an Indian
Voyage across Lake St. Clair
The American emigrants
Detroit
War of Pontiac
Contrast between the Canadian and the American shores
Churches at Detroit. Volume 3: River St. Clair
Mackinaw
The Indians
Missions
Chippewa language
Mishosha
Religious opinions
Indian dance
Night on Lake Huron
Indian warfare
Manitoolin Island
Indian women
Canoe voyage
Penetanguishene.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]