Julia Margaret CAMERON (1815

Events in Julia Margaret CAMERON (1815 - 1879)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
		Married Charles CAMERON		had 6 children
1815		Julia Margaret CAMERON was born
1845	30	Death of father James PATTLE (aged 70)		Note 1
1845	30	Death of mother Adeline PATTLE (aged 52)		Note 2
1879	64	Julia Margaret CAMERON died

Note 1: family lore: "he was packed off home in a cask of spirits, which cask, exploding, ejected his unbottled corpse before his widow's eyes, drove her out of her wits, set the ship on fire and stranded it in Hooghly"(Bell 14)

Note 2: died on ship back to England with husband's corpse

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:
-had 6 children
-was given camera at age 50 (Bell 16)
-married "the first lawyer on India's Supreme Council, Charles Cameron" who was "described by Leslie in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as 'a man of cultivated intellect, well read in classical and modern literature'" (Lee 89)

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-"The least beautiful but the most gifted" of the Pattle sisters (Bell 15)
-"The inhabitants of Putney saw her...[as] an eccentric; we see in her an immortal, not one of the great immortals, but still an artist who has survived and will survive" (Bell 16)
-"vague, silly and sentimental, Mrs Cameron had, nevertheless, a streak of pure genius" (Bell 16)
-"Julia Margaret Cameron's impetuous, despotic energies, bursting out in letters and hospitality and (at last, at fifty) in photography, was a rich source of inspiration" (Lee 89)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:
-"They collected around them a huge circle of Anglo-Indian, literary, artistic, and political friends: Gladstone, Sir Henry Taylor, Jowett, Herschel, Watts, Ellen Terry, Burne-Jones, Joachim, Tennyson, Browning," many of whom sat for portraits (Lee 89)
-"Julia Margaret Cameron died three years before Virginia Stephen was born...their [Julia and Sara's] flamboyant, domineering, and affectionate characters were vivid to her" (Lee 89)
-Virginia perceived Julia's social life as always bustling; she was always entertaining people in her home (Lee 89)

ADULT WORK HABITS:
"She began at once to take photographs. It became her passion, her vocation. Beautiful women and distinguished men were obliged, for she of an imperious nature, to sit for the long poses that were then necessary" (Bell 16)

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:

ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES:

HOSPITALIZATION:

OTHER:

Source References:

1. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Auth: Quentin Bell, Publ: Mariner Books, Date: 1974

- Reference = 15, 16 (Name, Notes)

2. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf, Auth: Hermione Lee, Publ: Vintage Books, Date: 1996

- Reference = 89 (Name, Notes)

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