Pre-Raphaelite Photography: The Julia Margaret Cameron Reading List
A growing list of books on the life and work of Julia Margaret Cameron

“[F]rom the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.”
Julia Margaret Cameron
As new research on the life and work of Julia Margaret Cameron becomes available, I will continue to update this list. This is just the beginning of an ongoing Pre-Raphaelite Photography series. Through the Amazon Affiliate Program, any eligible purchases you make through Amazon links on this post will help me earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting the growth of this pleasaunce through your love of the Pre-Raphaelites and the ethereal work of Julia Margaret Cameron! She was my gateway into the realm of the Pre-Raphaelites. 𓇗
Light and Love: The Extraordinary Developments of Julia Margaret Cameron and Mary Hillier by Kirsty Stonell Walker
From Life : The Story of Julia Margaret Cameron and Victorian Photographyby Victoria C. Olsen, Audible Book
Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Fancy Subjects’: Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire by Jeffrey Rosen
Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears: Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen by Marion Dell
Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron: Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection by Sophie Gordon
Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women by Professor Sylvia Wolf, Stephanie Lipscomb, Debra N. Mancoff, Phyllis Rose
Annals of My Glass House: Photographs by Violet Hamilton, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Julia Duckworth Stephen: Stories for Children, Essays for Adults by Diane Gillespie and Elizabeth Steele
Whisper of the Muse: The Overstone Album and Other Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron by Mike Weaver
