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Jephson, Harriet Julia Campbell

Main entryJephson, Harriet Julia Campbell
Birth placeThornhill, Quebec
Birth date14 May 1854
Death placeRyde, Isle of Wight, England
Death date26 November 1930
Identifier0105
Birth nameHarriet Julia Campbell
Married nameJephson (Lady)
Marital statusmarried
Religious affiliationAnglican
BiographyInspired by the stories told by her mother, author Isabella Campbell*, Harriet Julia Campbell (1854-1930) developed her own literary endowments. After a private education in the well-to-do home of her barrister father, she studied art in Rome. At the age of nineteen she married Commander Alfred Jephson (c1842-1900) of the Royal Navy. The rest of her life was spent in London where she contributed to a variety of British periodicals. She also won a reputation in Montreal, Rome, and London as a watercolour artist and illustrated her own collection of stories and essays, A CANADIAN SCRAPBOOK (1897). Focusing on Canadian social life, this book reflects the late nineteenth-century fascination with the culture and colour of French-Canada. As Lady Jephson, she sponsored a number of philanthropic endeavours and was appointed Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Harriet died at Ryde on Isle of Wight, Eingland in 1930.
ResidencesThornhill, Quebec; St. Columban, Portneuf, Quebec (1871); Chelsea London, England (1891)
Geographic regionsQuebec; England
Primary genresnon-fiction; fiction
BooksA CANADIAN SCRAPBOOK: A VOLUME OF ESSAYS AND STORIES (1897); LETTERS TO A DEBUTANTE (1905); A WAR-TIME JOURNAL, GERMANY 1914 AND GERMAN TRAVEL NOTES (1915); NOTES OF A NOMAD (1918)
PeriodicalsATALANTE; LADY'S REALM; LITERATURE; NATIONAL REVIEW, NEW REVIEW; THE QUEEN; VANITY FAIR; THE WINDSOR MAGAZINE; THE WORLD
Other artspainting (watercolour)
Father's nameArchibald Campbell
Life dates of father1823, Quebec - 27 April 1906, Thornhill, Quebec
Father's notebarrister; Prothnotary for Prov. of Que Superior Court
Mother's nameIsabella C. Prior
Life dates of mother25 December 1830, Quebec City, Quebec - 17 December 1887
Mother's noteauthor
Spouse 1Captain Sir Alfred Jephson
Life dates of spouse 1c1842, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England - 1900
Spouse 1 noteOfficer in Royal Navy; agent-general for Niger Coast Protectorate; Assistant Secretary of Imperial Institute, London; secretary-general for Order of St. John of Jerusalem; knighted 1891; ostrich farming hobbyist
Marriage 1 date16 October 1873
Marriage 1 placeAnglican Cathedral Holy Trinity Church, Quebec City, Quebec
Biographical referencesMorgan, CANADIAN MEN AND WOMEN OF THE TIME (1912); WOMEN'S WHO'S WHO OF AMERICA (1914-15); 1871 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005; England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941; Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967
Bibliographic referencesWatters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 521, 620; National Union Catalogue
Research referencescomplete
Image creditsImage from Henry James Morgan, ed. Types of Canadian Women, and of Women Who Are or Have Been Connected With Canada (Toronto: Briggs, 1903).
CopyrightThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Please cite Canada's Early Women Writers. SFU Library Digital Collections. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. 1980-2014.