SD1273. Anna Brownell Jameson to Unidentified Correspondent

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 14, 362 (in part).

[Paris]

[ca. 23 September 1846]

I am sold into a double captivity; for, to enable me to do this, I have done what I most hate—contracted to finish a book in a certain time. My plans are not quite decided. I dislike Paris; it is a place which does not harmonise with my nature; and I shall probably go to Pisa or to Florence by the Rhine and Marseilles. So much for my own biography.

I have also here a poet and a poetess—two celebrities who have run away and married under circumstances peculiarly interesting, and such as render imprudence the height of prudence. Both excellent; but God help them! for I know not how the two poet heads and poet hearts will get on through this prosaic world. I think it possible I may go on to Italy with them.

Text: Gerardine Macpherson, Memoirs of the Life of Anna Jameson (London, 1878), pp. 228–229.

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