ABSTRACT
Frequently portrayed by biographers as one of photography’s eccentrics, Julia Margaret Cameron is a women of passionate emotions, enormous enthusiasm and acute self-knowledge. Cameron’s ‘little history’ is in part a description of her photographic methods and subjects, in part a riposte to the London critics who had accused her of slipshod techniques and self-seeking behaviour. Mrs. Cameron’s photography, now ten years old, has passed the age of lisping and stammering and may speak for itself, having travelled over Europe, America and Australia, and met with a welcome which has given it confidence and power. Therefore, she thinks that the Annals of My Glass House will be welcome to the public, and, endeavouring to clothe her litde history with light, as with a garment, she feels confident that the truthful account of indefatigable work, with the anecdote of human interest attached to that work, will add in some measure to its value.
