Jameson (ANNA an Irish author)
ANNA, an Irish author and critic; born (Murphy) in Dublin in shed in 188. 1794. Mrs. Jameson published in 1831 entitle her first important work, entitled igns," "Memoirs of Female Sovereigns," and this was succeeded in the following year by "Characteristics of Women." But it is as an art critic that Mrs. Jameson is best entitled to remembrance. Chief among these works were: "Lives of Early Italian Painters" (1845); "Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art" (1848); "Legends of the Monastic Orders" (1850); "Legends of the Madonna" (1852); and a "Commonplace Book of March 19, Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies" (1845). She died in Ealing, March 19, 1860.
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Jameson, Mrs. Anna Brownell Murphy
ja'me-son, Mrs. Anna Brownell Murphy (1794-1860), a British author and art critic. She was born at Dublin, the eldest daughter of an Irish miniature painter. While a young woman she filled the position of governess in several families, and in 1825 married Robert Jameson, from whom she soon separated. Her first publication was Diary of an Ennuyee which appeared in 1826. Loves of the Poets, Memoirs of Female Sovereigns, and Characteristics of Shakespeare's Women soon followed. These books were favorably received, but Mrs. Jameson is known best for her art criticisms. Among her writings in this line may be mentioned Handbook to the Public Picture Galleries of Art, published in 1842; Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters, and Sacred and Legendary Art. These works have done much toward the refinement of public taste, since they are of such style as to attract the ordinary reader and are at the same time true expositions of the works of the old masters.
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Jamestown
Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America. It was colonized May 13, 1607, by a party which included Gosnold and John Smith. The location chosen was a peninsula on the river James, about thirty-two miles above its mouth. The town passed through the vicissitudes of famine, fire, and Indian massacre, but was never abandoned wholly. During early colonial days Jamestown was not only the capital of Virginia, but a center of fashion and gaiety. In 1698 the capital was removed to Williamsburg. The site of Jamestown was not happily chosen. It was low and malarious. The neck of the peninsula, always under water in time of flood, has been washed wholly away, converting the old site into an island. The water frontage has been undermined by the current. The spot where the old historic cabins stood has gone down stream, but the ivy-mantled tower of an old brick church and several tombstones still stand. With assistance from the general government, an association for the preservation of Virginian antiquities has purchased the spot and has built a retaining wall to prevent the further encroachment of the waves. See Virginia
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Jamestown (City in Chautauqua called part)
a city in Chautauqua called part of co., N. Y., at the outlet of Chautauqua Sweden There a Lake, and on the Erie, the Jamestown, It is iakes. Chautauqua and Lake Erie, and several - miles. other railroads, 69 mile S.' W. of Bufpart There falo. It is the trade center for Chau- lakes. JAMU tauqua county, and the distributing e of Nort point for Chautauqua Lake resorts; conlower nected by trolley with Falconer and that wh Lakewood; is largely concerned in the of 3. Ganges agricultural industry; and has manulower JAN factures of cloth, boots and shoes, furthat CABOA niture, axes, and other edge tools, pianos, Ganges. Polish iron fabrics, and brooms. The city contains the Jamestown High School, a Na- CESCA Colo tional and other banks; has daily, weekly, Polish en Frank and monthly periodicals. Pop. ( 1910) July 20 31,297; (1920) 38,917. ced primei Cologne
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Jamuna
the name of several rivers Northern India, the chief being the ame of several rivers section of the Brahmaputra, and the chief being the which connects it directly with the e Brahmaputrs, and it directly with the
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Jan Mayen Land
a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean, named after the Dutch navigator by whom it was discovered in 1611. It lies between Iceland and Spitzbergen, and is 35 miles long. 35 Its highest point is the extinct volcano of tinct vo Beerenberg, 8,350 feet, the sides of which sides of are covered with immense glaciers and. frozen waterfalls. In 1882-1883 it was 32-1883 made the station of the Austrian polar Austrian expedition. Important seal and whale eal and fishings are carried on E. and N. of Jan Mayen every summer.
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Janaushek
FRAN- ROMANA MAGDALENA, (yan'ö-shek), FRANa actress; born in Prague, Bohemia, MAGDALENA, a , 1830. She began her career in in Prague, Bohemia, , playing in that city and in began her career in from 1848 to 1860. She In that city and in played in Dresden and all the 1948 to 1860. She cities of Germany. In 1852 Dresden and all the was married to Capt. Frederick Germany. In 1852 of the German navy. She made to Capt. Frederick tour in America in 1867-1869, nan navy. She made once secured favorable notice. America in 1357-1869, to Germany, she studied Engred favorable notice. and in 1873 made her second visit she studied Eng- United States, when she played her second visit English the most exacting Shakewhen she played rôles. She retired from the exacting Shakein 1898, and died Nov. 29, 1904. She retired from the died Nov. 29, 1904. , FREDERICK T., an English writer and novelist; born in 1870. BICK T., an English novelist; born in 1870. He was originally intended for the navy, but became a writer instead. He published " Blake of the ' Rattlesnake ' " ( 1895); " To Venus in Five Seconds " 000. (1897); "All the World's Fighting Ships" (1898-1899); "The Torpedo in Peace and War" (1898); "The Jane 398) Naval War Game" (1898); "The British Battle Fleet" (1912); "The Navy as a Fighting Machine" (1914). Died 1916.
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Janesville
a city and a countyseat of Rock co., Wis.; on both sides of Rock river, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads; 70 miles W. S. W. of Milwaukee and 91 miles N. W. of Chicago. It is the farming trade center for five counties, having a population of 120,000; and its manufactories include flour mills, woolen mills, machine shops, foundries, carriage factories, and breweries. Janesville is the seat of St. Joseph's (R. C.) Convent State School for the Blind, and Oak Lawn and Palmer Memorial Hospitals. There are 2 National banks, daily, weekly, and monthly assessed property periodicals, and an a $2,000,000. Pop. valuation over (1910) 13,894; (1920) 18,293.
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