Editing Julia Margaret Cameron (section)

==== Mid-career ====
In 1865, she became a member of the Photographic Society of Scotland and arranged to have her prints sold through the London dealers P. & D. Colnaghi.<ref name=20180131icp>{{Cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/julia-margaret-cameron|title=Julia Margaret Cameron|date=31 January 2018|work=International Center of Photography|access-date=3 May 2019}}</ref> She presented a series of photographs, ''The Fruits of the Spirit'', to the [[British Museum]],<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|8}} and held her first solo exhibition in November 1865.<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /> Her prints generated robust demand and she showed her work throughout Europe,<ref name="Art Story" /> securing awards in Berlin in 1865 and 1866,<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /> and an honourable mention in Dublin.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|8}}

Her photographic activity was supported by her husband. Cameron wrote: "My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it is my daily habit to run to him with every glass upon which a fresh glory is newly stamped, and to listen to his enthusiastic applause."<ref name="Genius of the Glass House" />

In August 1865, the South Kensington Museum (now the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]), purchased 80 of her photographs.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|8}} Three years later, it offered her two rooms to use as a portrait studio, making her the museum's first artist-in-residence.<ref name="Victoria and Albert Museum" />
[[File:Julia Margaret Cameron - John Herschel (Metropolitan Museum of Art copy, restored) levels.jpg|thumb|[[John Herschel|Sir John Herschel]], 1867]]
She produced images of [[Thomas Carlyle]] and John Herschel in 1867.<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" /> By 1868, she was generating sales through P. & D. Colnaghi and a second London agent, William Spooner. In 1869, she created ''The Kiss of Peace'', which she considered her finest work.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|8}}

[[File:The Kiss of Peace, by Julia Margaret Cameron, M197101590002.jpg|alt=A woman's cheek rests on the forehead of a younger girl. Both appear calm and are draped in fabric from the neck down.|thumb|''The Kiss of Peace'', by Julia Margaret Cameron]]

In the early 1870s, Cameron's work matured.<ref name="Art Story" /> Her elaborate illustrative tableaux involving religious, literary, and classical figures peaked in a series of images for Tennyson's ''[[Idylls of the King]]'', published in 1874 and 1875, evidently at her expense.<ref name="Oxford Companion to the Photograph" /><ref name="National Gallery of Art" /> During this time, she also wrote ''Annals of my Glass House''.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|9}}