'A real picture of natural and feminine feeling?' Anna Jameson's Diary of an ennuy茅e

Abstract

In the introduction to Anna Jameson's Diary of an Ennuyee, the tour of Italy from the perspective of a heartbroken narrator is apparently legitimized by the approval of a fictional, male Editor: The following Diary is published exactly as it was found after the death of the Author; varied only by the omission of certain names. As a real picture of natural and feminine feeling, the Editor hopes that it may interest others as much as it has interested him. The diary, which purports to be a 'real picture' of female sensibility; offers a critique of other versions of sensibility and instead presents an account of Italy through the experiences of a young Englishwoman.