Julia Margaret CAMERON

Julia Margaret CAMERON
1815
1879

Famous Victorian photographer and great-aunt of artist Vanessa Stephen BELL and author Virginia Stephen WOOLF.  Photographs were taken by Cameron in Cornwall, who also recorded the Stephens family during summers at Talland House, St Ives (and London).

Virginia Woolf later wrote a play Freshwater, based on the bohemian lifestyle of Cameron and friends on the Isle of Wight.  Her home, Dimbola, is now maintained by the National Trust in her name.

media

Photographer

works and access

Works include: My Grandchild Archie (1865) Albumen

references

Julia Margaret Cameron Trust

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p317)

Leslie Stephen Photograph Album, 1856-1894 (Smith College)

Whybrow (1994) Remembering St Ives

WCAA

Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain (website)