A Mirror of the Victorian Soul
6 min readJun 13, 2016
In 1863, Julia Margaret Cameron’s six children were all grown or away at boarding school. Her husband was on the other side of the world — in Ceylon — attending to his coffee plantations.
That left the middle-aged matron alone on the family estate on the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England. Alone, that is, except for a large house staff and several celebrity neighbors.
