Editing Julia Margaret Cameron (section)

=== Early life and education ===
Julia Margaret Cameron was born '''Julia Margaret Pattle''' on 11 June 1815, at [[Garden Reach]] in [[Calcutta]], India,<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography">{{Cite ODNB|id=4449|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |last= Barlow |first= Helen |date= 2017 |chapter= Cameron [née Pattle], Julia Margaret (1815–1879), photographer}}</ref> to Adeline Marie and James Peter Pattle.

James Pattle worked in India for the [[East India Company]].<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /><ref name="Art Story">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist-cameron-julia-margaret.htm|title=Julia Margaret Cameron|date=7 August 2018|work=The Art Story|access-date=3 May 2019}}</ref> His family had been involved with the Company for many years. He traced his line to a 17th-century ancestor living in Chancery Lane, London.<ref name="Genius of the Glass House">{{Cite news |last= Malcolm|first= Janet |title= The Genius of the Glass House |work= The New York Review of Books |date= 4 February 1999 |url= http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1999/02/04/the-genius-of-the-glass-house/ |access-date=5 May 2019|issn=0028-7504}}</ref> Adeline's mother was a French aristocrat and the daughter of Chevalier Ambrose Pierre Antoine de l'Etang, who had been a page to [[Marie Antoinette]] and an officer in the [[Garde du Corps (France)|Garde du Corps]] of King [[Louis XVI]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TP_q7KHL1EkC&pg=PA203 |title=The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette – Helen Southworth |isbn=978-0-8142-0964-6 |last1= Boatright |first1= Robert G. |last2= Southworth |first2= Helen |year= 2004|publisher=Ohio State University Press }}</ref> After James died in Calcutta, he was shipped back to London in a barrel of rum for burial in Camberwell.

Julia was the fourth of ten children, three of whom{{Efn|The three children of Cameron's parents that died in infancy are James (1813–1813), Eliza (1814–1818) and Harriet (1828–1828).}} died in infancy. Julia and six of her sisters<ref name="Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography">{{Cite book|last=Ford|first=Colin|title=Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography|date=2008|publisher=Routledge|editor-last=Hannavy|editor-first=John|location=London, UK|chapter=Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815–1879|access-date=28 April 2019|chapter-url=https://search-credoreference-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/topic/cameron_julia_margaret_pattle_1815_1879}}</ref><ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /> survived into adulthood,{{Efn|Cameron's sisters were Adeline (1812–1836), Sara (1816–1887), Maria (1818–1892), Louisa (1821–1873), Virginia (1827–1910) and Sophia (1829–1911).}} inheriting some Bengali blood through their maternal grandmother, Thérèse Josephe Blin de Grincourt. The seven sisters were known for their "charm, wit and beauty" and for being close, outspoken, and unconventional in behaviour and dress.<ref name="Soft-focus Photographer">{{Cite news|last=Higgins|first=Charlotte|date=22 September 2015|title=Julia Margaret Cameron: soft-focus photographer with an iron will|language=en|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/22/julia-margaret-cameron-victorian-portrait-photographer-exhibitions|access-date=3 May 2019|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>{{Efn|All of Cameron's sisters spoke Hindustani and French<ref name="The Complete Photographs">{{Cite book |last1= Cox|first1= Julian|last2= Ford|first2= Colin |title= Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs |date=2003|publisher= Getty Publications |url= https://archive.org/details/juliamargaretcam0000coxj |isbn=0-89236-681-8|location=Los Angeles, CA |url-access=registration}}</ref>{{Rp|12}}|name=|}} They favoured Indian silks and shawls rather than the Victorian attire of other colonial woman.<ref name=Schama>{{cite book |last= Schama |first= Simon |title= A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776–2000|location=  London |publisher= The Bodley Head |date= 2011 |pages= 178–181 |type= Paperback |isbn= 978-1-84792-014-0}}</ref>

The sisters were sent to France as children to be educated, Julia living there with her maternal grandmother in [[Versailles, Yvelines|Versailles]] from 1818 to 1834, after which she returned to India.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography" /><ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /><ref name="Art Story" /><ref name="Victoria and Albert Museum">{{Cite web |last= Weiss |first= Marta |title= Julia Margaret Cameron – an introduction |work= Victoria and Albert Museum |url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/julia-margaret-cameron-introduction |access-date=30 April 2019}}</ref>

Julia's sisters all made advantageous matches. Older sister Adeline married Lt-General Colin Mackenzie. Sophia married Sir John Warrander Dalrymple. Louisa married Henry Vincent Bayley, a high court judge. Maria married Dr John Jackson, and among their children was Julia's godchild [[Julia Stephen]]. Sara (Sarah) married Sir [[Henry Thoby Prinsep]], a director of the East India Company, and made their home at [[Little Holland House]] in [[Kensington]], which became an important intellectual centre. Virginia Pattle married [[Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers|Charles Somers-Cocks, Viscount Eastnor]] (later 3rd Earl Somers). Their eldest daughter was [[Lady Henry Somerset]], the temperance leader, while the younger, [[Adeline Marie Russell, Duchess of Bedford|Lady Adeline Marie]], became the Duchess of Bedford.