Irrepressible Julia Margaret Cameron at peace in Bogawantalawa-By GEORGE BRAINE Source:Island Some years ago, my sister, BIL, and I drove to the Dimbula area, visiting Anglican churches and graveyards looking for evidence of our ancestors. At the quaint St. Mary’s church, Bogawantalawa, we found the grave of my grand uncle, Frank Wyndham Becher Braine, who died on March 9, 1879, at only 11 months. We may have been the first family members to visit his grave in more than a 100 years. That graveyard is also the resting place of a husband and wife, Charles Hay and Julia Margaret Cameron. Julia, during and after her lifetime, has been described as “indefatigable”, “a centripetal force”, “a bully”, “queenly”, “a one-woman empire”, “infernal”, “hot to handle”, “omnipresent”, “a tigress”. She was “impatient and restive”, for whom “a single lifetime wasn’t enough”. Who was this remarkable Victorian? Julia was born in Calcutta, in ...
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Irrepressible Julia Margaret Cameron, at peace in Bogawantalawa – By GEORGE BRAINE Some years ago, my sister, BIL, and I drove to the Dickoya area, visiting Anglican churches and graveyards looking for evidence of our ancestors. At the quaint St. Mary’s church at Bogawantalawa, we found the grave my grand uncle, Frank Wyndham Becher Braine, who had died on March 9, 1879, at only 11 months. We may have been the first family members to visit his grave in more than a hundred years. That graveyard is also the resting place of a husband and wife, Charles Hay and Julia Margaret Cameron. Julia, during and after her lifetime, has been described as “indefatigable”, “a centripetal force”, “a bully”, “queenly”, “a one-woman empire”, “infernal”, “hot to handle”, “omnipresent”, “a tigress”. She was “impatient and restive”, for whom “a single lifetime wasn’t enough”. Who was this remarkable Victorian? Julia was born in ...
Sep 19, 2022
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Julia Margaret Cameron: Victorian Photographer in Ceylon Source:Thuppahis Benita Stambler, an original essay for Thuppahi, but also pointing to a Special Exhibition in London on Julia Margaret Cameron Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the stars of nineteenth century British photography. Her luminescent work remains popular for museum exhibitions even today. What is not commonly known about her, however, is that she was among the earliest portrait photographers in Ceylon. Her photographs taken while she lived in Ceylon stand apart from the vast output of photographs she took in Britain. Untitled, 1875-1879, The Art Institute of Chicago, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Untitled_(Ceylon)_2,_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was unique among Victorian-era British photographers in many ways. First of all, she was a woman. Women were rare in most professions at the time, and photography was no exception. Second, she created portraits of some of the most notable people of Victorian England, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charles Darwin, ...
The Golden Valley’s Tea of Life Friday, September 4, 2020 – 01:00 Print Edition T&C – DAILY NEWS Juliet Coombe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the writer of Sherlock Holmes said: “The tea fields of Ceylon are as great a monument to courage as the plains of Waterloo.” Tourism trends show that the future is making the most of the great outdoors, from Street art on village walls to ancient trails through tea estates, where social distancing is easier than the crowded cities and in a way more in line with the first pioneers who first visited the country. Norwood is a stunning place to unplug and reboot ones mind, being a stunning area with only a small village in the Central Province, known as ‘The Golden Valley of Tea’; a place you can try your hand at picking tea, only to realise it takes both talent, experience and dextrous speed, ...
