Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Jameson's hugely successful 1838 work begins with a description of Toronto and Niagara in winter.

Anna Jameson (Author)

9781108033541, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2011

334 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.43 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. In Volume 1, Jameson describes her difficulty adapting to the winter cold, her impressions of Ontario's landscape, peoples, and political system, and her reflections on literature, especially Goethe. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=jamean

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.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]