Judith Johnston: 2 books

Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870

by Judith Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016

Both travel and translation involve a type of journey, one with literal and metaphorical dimensions. Judith Johnston brings together these two richly resonant modes of getting from here to there as she explores their impact on culture with respect to the work of Victorian women. Using the metaphor...

Anna Jameson

Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters

by Judith Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

Anna Brownwell Jameson (1794-1869) was a central figure in the London world of letters and art in the early Victorian period, and an important feminist writer. Her friends included such figures as Harriet Martineau, Lady Byron, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This study considers her...