Main entry | Jephson, Harriet Julia Campbell |
Birth place | Thornhill, Quebec |
Birth date | 14 May 1854 |
Death place | Ryde, Isle of Wight, England |
Death date | 26 November 1930 |
Identifier | 0105 |
Birth name | Harriet Julia Campbell |
Married name | Jephson (Lady) |
Marital status | married |
Religious affiliation | Anglican |
Biography | Inspired 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. |
Residences | Thornhill, Quebec; St. Columban, Portneuf, Quebec (1871); Chelsea London, England (1891) |
Geographic regions | Quebec; England |
Primary genres | non-fiction; fiction |
Books | A 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) |
Periodicals | ATALANTE; LADY'S REALM; LITERATURE; NATIONAL REVIEW, NEW REVIEW; THE QUEEN; VANITY FAIR; THE WINDSOR MAGAZINE; THE WORLD |
Other arts | painting (watercolour) |
Father's name | Archibald Campbell |
Life dates of father | 1823, Quebec - 27 April 1906, Thornhill, Quebec |
Father's note | barrister; Prothnotary for Prov. of Que Superior Court |
Mother's name | Isabella C. Prior |
Life dates of mother | 25 December 1830, Quebec City, Quebec - 17 December 1887 |
Mother's note | author |
Spouse 1 | Captain Sir Alfred Jephson |
Life dates of spouse 1 | c1842, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England - 1900 |
Spouse 1 note | Officer 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 date | 16 October 1873 |
Marriage 1 place | Anglican Cathedral Holy Trinity Church, Quebec City, Quebec |
Biographical references | Morgan, 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 references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 521, 620; National Union Catalogue |
Research references | complete |
Image credits | Image from Henry James Morgan, ed. Types of Canadian Women, and of Women Who Are or Have Been Connected With Canada (Toronto: Briggs, 1903). |
Copyright | This 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. |