Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work

A collection of the remarkable, often painterly photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron, including portraits of such eminent Victorians as Robert Browning, Charles Darwin, Sir John Herschel, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, the mother of Virginia Woolf. In tableaux, in representations of allegorical and literary figures, or in costume, Mrs. Cameron's subjects are transformed through a remarkable vision which sought to reveal the souls beneath their faces. A new edition of an out-of-print classic.