Editing Julia Margaret Cameron (section)

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The Camerons moved to England in 1845, where they took part in London's artistic and cultural scene.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|15}}<ref name="Oxford Companion to the Photograph">{{Cite book |title=The Oxford Companion to the Photograph |last=Ford |first=Colin |date=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-866271-6|chapter=Cameron, Julia Margaret|access-date=28 April 2019|chapter-url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198662716.001.0001/acref-9780198662716-e-254|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000unse_f1h1}}</ref> Julia often visited [[Little Holland House]] where her sister, Sara Prinsep, oversaw a literary and artistic salon "of [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood|Pre-Raphaelite]] painters, poets, and aristocrats with artistic pretensions".<ref name="Grove Art Online" /><ref name="Angels and Instincts" /> Here, she met many of the subjects of her later portraits, including Henry Taylor and [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson|Alfred Tennyson]].<ref name="Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography" />

[[Daphne du Maurier]] describes the scene:<blockquote>The nobilitee, the gentree, the litherathure, polithics and art of the counthree, by jasus! It's a nest of proraphaelites, where Hunt, Millais, Rossetti, Watts, Leighton etc, Tennyson, the Brownings and Thackeray etc and tutti quanti receive dinners and incense, and cups of tea handed to them by these women almost kneeling.<ref>Daphne Du Maurier, ed., ''The Young George Du Maurier: A Selection of His Letters, 1860–67'' (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1952), p. 112, quoted in Leonee Ormond, George Du Maurier (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), p. 103, quoted in {{Cite book|title=Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs|last1=Cox|first1=Julian|last2=Ford|first2=Colin|date=2003|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=0-89236-681-8|location=Los Angeles, CA|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/juliamargaretcam0000coxj}}</ref></blockquote>[[Benjamin Jowett]] echoed this when describing Cameron's reverence to these artists and poets after a later visit to Freshwater. The same salon-like atmosphere was present. "She is a sort of hero-worshipper, and the hero is not Mr Tennyson – he only occupies second place – but Henry Taylor."<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|27}}

In 1847, she was writing poetry, had started a novel, and published a translation of [[Gottfried August Bürger]]'s ''Leonora''.<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /><ref name="Grove Art Online" />

In 1848, Charles Cameron retired and invested in coffee and rubber plantations in [[British Ceylon|Ceylon]], becoming one of the island's largest landowners.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|483}} The Camerons settled in [[Royal Tunbridge Wells|Tunbridge Wells]] in [[Kent]],<ref name="National Gallery of Art">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.13395.html|title=Julia Margaret Cameron|work=National Gallery of Art|access-date=3 May 2019}}</ref> where they were neighbours of Taylor,<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|16}} then moved to East Sheen in 1850.<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /><ref name="Art Story" /><ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|7}} During this time, Cameron became a member of a society for art education and appreciation. [[George Frederic Watts]] started working on a painting of Cameron (which is now in the National Portrait Gallery).<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|7}}[[File:Julia Margaret Cameron by George Frederic Watts.jpg|thumb|''Julia Margaret Cameron'' by George Frederic Watts. Oil on canvas, 1850–1852, 24 in. x 20 in. (610&nbsp;mm x 508&nbsp;mm).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw01021/Julia-Margaret-Cameron|title=NPG 5046; Julia Margaret Cameron – Portrait Extended |website= National Portrait Gallery |access-date=8 May 2019}}</ref>]]
In 1860, after an extended visit to Tennyson at Freshwater, Cameron bought a house next door. The family moved there, naming the property "[[Dimbola Lodge|Dimbola]]" after one of the coffee plantations in Ceylon.<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /><ref name="Angels and Instincts" /> A private gate connected the residences and the two families soon started entertaining famous people with music, poetry readings, and amateur plays, creating an artistic scene similar to Little Holland House.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography" /> Cameron lived there until 1875.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Oxford Companion to English Literature|last=Birch |first=Dinah |date=1 January 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-280687-1 |editor=Dinah Birch |chapter=Cameron, Julia Margaret|access-date=28 April 2019|chapter-url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192806871.001.0001/acref-9780192806871-e-1274}}</ref>