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Lady Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson
A traveler, illustrator, and writer with a sharp eye for place and people, she left behind a vivid firsthand account of Germany at the outbreak of World War I. Her work blends observation, curiosity, and the perspective of someone moving between artistic and literary worlds.
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A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes
by Lady Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson
About the author
Lady Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson was a British writer, watercolour artist, and illustrator. The National Portrait Gallery identifies her as Harriet Julia (née Campbell), Lady Jephson, born in 1854 and died in 1930, and notes that she was the daughter of Archibald Campbell.
She is best known as the author of A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes, a work that preserves her impressions of Germany at a moment of enormous upheaval. Project Gutenberg and Wikisource both list the book under her name, and Wikisource records that she died in 1930.
What makes her especially interesting is the mix of roles she brought to her work: she was not only a writer but also an artist. That combination helps explain the vivid, observant quality associated with her surviving work, which reads like the record of someone attentive to both atmosphere and detail.