Editing Julia Margaret Cameron (section)

==== South Africa and Calcutta ====
In 1835, after suffering several illnesses, Julia visited the [[Cape of Good Hope]] in South Africa with her parents to recover.<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /><ref name="Art Story" /> It was common for Europeans living in India to visit South Africa to convalesce.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography" /> While there, she met the British astronomer and photochemist [[Sir John Herschel]], who was observing the southern celestial hemisphere.<ref name="Victoria and Albert Museum" /> 

She also met [[Charles Hay Cameron]], twenty years her senior and a reformer of Indian law and education who later invested in coffee plantations in what is now [[Sri Lanka]].<ref name="Victoria and Albert Museum" /> He was also there to convalesce, probably after a [[malaria]]l fever, which often spread during the Indian monsoon season. The illness caused kidney trouble and diarrhœa for the rest of his life.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|14}}

They were married in Calcutta on 1 February 1838, two years after meeting.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography" /><ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /> In December, Julia gave birth to their first child; Herschel was the godfather.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|15}} Between 1839 and 1852, they had six children, one of whom was adopted.<ref name="Art Story" /><ref name="Grove Art Online">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000013434|title=Cameron [Pattle], Julia Margaret |last= Lukitsh |first= Joanne |work= Grove Art Online |year= 2018 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T013434|isbn=978-1-884446-05-4 }}</ref> In all, the Camerons raised 11 children, five of her own, five orphaned children of relatives, and an Irish girl named Mary Ryan whom they found begging on Putney Heath and whom Cameron used as a model in her photographs.<ref name="Soft-focus Photographer" /><ref name="Angels and Instincts">{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/02/17/angels-and-instincts|title=Angels and Instincts|last=Thurman|first=Judith|date=10 February 2003|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=30 April 2019|issn=0028-792X}}</ref> Their son, [[Henry Herschel Hay Cameron]], would also become a photographer.<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" />
[[File:Julia Margaret Cameron, by James Prinsep.jpg|thumb|alt=|A drawing of Julia Margaret Cameron by [[James Prinsep]]]]
Through the early 1840s—as the organiser of social engagements for the Governor-General, [[Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge|Lord Hardinge]]—Cameron became a prominent hostess in Anglo-Indian society.<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /> During this time she also corresponded with Herschel. In 1839, he told Cameron about the invention of photography.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|14}}{{Efn|Herschel coined the terms "photography", "snapshot", and "negative".<ref name="Angels and Instincts" />|name=|}} In 1842, he sent her two dozen [[calotype]]s and [[daguerreotype]]s, the first photographs she ever saw.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|42}}