Julia Margaret Cameron Christabel, 1866 Albumen silver print from glass negative 33.2 x 26.9 cm “Yea, she doth smile, and she doth weep,Like a youthful hermitess,Beauteous in a wilderness.” Samuel Taylor ColeridgeColeridge’s unfinished poem “Christabel” (1816) tells the story of a young woman debased by sorcery. A dark poem, full of rolling fog and lesbian innuendo, “Christabel” was the kind of tale that appealed to the Victorian palate—a sou
