Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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Friends, Associates Algernon Charles Swinburne
After leaving Eton , he met Lady Pauline and Walter Trevelyan , who became longtime friends and supporters. At Oxford he was first introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites , and he forged friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Siddal
ES had met some female associates of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood : artists Anna Mary Howitt (daughter of Mary Howitt ) and Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon), as well as Bessie Rayner Parkes .
Education Elizabeth Siddal
ES was trained in dressmaking and later studied painting informally, in her connection with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , from such artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago.
65, 66
She had no...
Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
While ES was working as a dressmaker in a milliner's shop, she came into contact with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood through a connection with the family of the principal of the London School of Design ...
Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
Despite her close connection to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , little is known of ES and her life. Griselda Pollock and Deborah Cherry, in Woman as sign in Pre-Raphaelite literature, present a sophisticated analysis of...
Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
She produced a compelling vision of Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott. Rossetti tried to have her work included in an edition of Tennyson's poems for which Edward Moxon commissioned illustrations from members of the...
Occupation John Ruskin
Having begun to publish in the 1830s, when he became a champion of J. W. Turner against established styles of painting, JR made his name and created a sensation with the appearance of the first...
Occupation Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Involved—with his brother , William Holman Hunt , John Everett Millais , and others—in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 's critique of the reigning artistic principles and values, DGR has subsequently become one of the most renowned...
Occupation Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Interest in him as a painter and writer has remained fairly steady since his death, increasing after the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood came into greater favour in the later twentieth century. Jerome McGann ...
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Rossetti
CR became engaged to marry James Collinson , an artist and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood .
Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable.
47-8
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
xi
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
89
Publishing Christina Rossetti
CR , although not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , published two poems, Dream-land and An End, anonymously in the inaugural issue of the group's periodical, the Germ.
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press.
1: 237, 241
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
xi
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
106
Author summary Christina Rossetti
CR wrote and published poetry ranging from religious poetry, love lyrics, and sonnets to narrative and dramatic verse. She published five successive volumes of verse, three collected editions, and many individual poems in anthologies and...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
According to biographer Jan Marsh , she participated vicariously in the activities of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from its inception in later 1848. Yet, as Andrew and Catherine Belsey have strenuously argued, and as the life...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
That December, CR composed another haunting exploration of women's roles, particularly their place within Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics, following a visit to her brother's studio, which was crowded with pictures of Elizabeth Siddal .
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
186
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press.
3: 463
Publishing Christina Rossetti
For this publication she turned to Routledge after F. S. Ellis dragged their heels. She was paid a £25 advance when the book appeared.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
395-6, 398
When she wrote out her fair copy, she included...

Timeline

: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded...

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Autumn1848

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in rebellion against the constraints and techniques of art as practised by the Royal Academy .

: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting The Girlhood...

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Spring1849

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (featuring Christina Rossetti as its model) appearing at the Free Exhibition at Hyde Park Gallery , was the first to display the initials of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood .

7 May 1849: The Royal Academy exhibition (held on the...

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7 May 1849

The Royal Academy exhibition (held on the first Monday in May) featured the first Pre-Raphaelite works by William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais .

1850: The Royal Academy unleashed the full weight...

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1850

The Royal Academy unleashed the full weight of its criticism against the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood .

Before May 1851: The Royal Academy accepted several Pre-Raphaelite...

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Before May 1851

The Royal Academy accepted several Pre-Raphaelite works for its annual exhibition (which opened on 5 May), despite the volley of criticism which had followed the Brotherhood's previous public displays.

13 May 1851: John Ruskin published a letter in The Times...

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13 May 1851

John Ruskin published a letter in The Times lauding the works of the Pre-Raphaelites .

1853: The formal association of the Pre-Raphaelite...

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1853

The formal association of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was dissolved; however, the movement persisted in various forms until the end of the century.

1 October-15 December 1856: Gustave Flaubert serially published his first...

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1 October-15 December 1856

Gustave Flaubert serially published his first novel, Madame Bovary, in the Revue de Paris.

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