1857 “Characteristics of Women; Moral, Poetical & Historical" by Anna Jameson

As shown. See all photos. Found this among my late mother’s belongings.

“Anna Brownell Jameson (17 May 1794 – 17 March 1860) was an Anglo-Irish art historian whose work spanned art and literary criticism, philosophy, travel writing, and feminism. She became very well known for her extensive writings.”

“The first work which displayed her powers of original thought was her Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical (1832). She used her analyses of William Shakespeare's heroines to put forward a subtle account of female virtue. This book, which later became known as Shakespeare's Heroines, was incredibly successful. Harriet Martineau remarked that "Mrs Jameson's world-wide reputation dates from the publication of this book". The book was reissued 28 times during the nineteenth century alone. As Anne Russell says, "So widely was Shakspeare’s Heroines read that almost every subsequent nineteenth-century writer on Shakespeare’s women characters mentions the book."