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)