theparisreview.org
The Beauty of the Heroine: Julia Margaret Cameron and the Poetic Portrait - The Paris Review
“The beauty of the heroine is evident to every one,” Julia Margaret Cameron wrote as the postscript of a letter accompanying the first copy of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, which she illustrated with photographs. She was speaking specifically of her image Vivien and Merlin, but, as evidenced in a show of her …
