Anna Brownell Jameson and Sir Francis Bond Head among the Anishinaabeg

When the British author Anna Brownell Jameson arrived in Toronto in 1836, she immediately found herself in the thick of local society. Her husband, Robert Jameson, was Upper Canada’s attorney general and was in line for promotion to the colony’s pre-eminent legal appointment, the vice-chancellorship of Court of Chancery. Although the Jamesons had been estranged for several years, they appear to have struck a mutually advantageous deal: she would come to Upper Canada to help her husband demonstrate his social stability, thereby supporting his hoped-for promotion, and in exchange he would provide her with a monetary settlement granting her a