Writings on Photography by Nineteenth-century Women (excerpts)

  • from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "On the Daguerreotype," in Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present. Edited by Liz Heron and Val Williams. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996.

  • from Alice Hughes, "A Lady Photographer Who Never Photographs Men; A Talk with Miss Alice Hughes." The Harmsworth Magazine, London, Vol. 11, 1899. Reprinted in Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present. Edited by Liz Heron and Val Williams. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996.

  • from Julia Margaret Cameron, Annals of My Glass House, 1874. Reprinted in Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present. Edited by Liz Heron and Val Williams. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996.

For on-line information about 19th-century Women Photographers, see: Women in Photography International Archive http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Palmquist/

To view the work of Julia Margaret Cameron and/or Anna Atkins, two British photographers working in the mid- to late 19th-century, see:




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