Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Frances was to some extent a writer, but as her son Dante Gabriel later said, her considerable potential as an author was stifled by the exercise of an entire self-abnegation on behalf of her family...

The internal monologue The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children occupied a bridging position in this volume between the first section of secular poems, and the final shorter section of devotional pieces. Its scriptural...

CR 's brothers Dante Gabriel and William Michael were respectively two years and one year older than she was, and were respectively a painter and poet, and a civil servant and literary critic. Their relationship...

Gabriel anticipated critics when he described Commonplace as a prose tale . . . rather in the Austen vein. Contrasting Commonplace, and Other Short Stories with tawdry romance, the...

He had been a member of the Christ Church congregation to which she belonged, as well as a fellow student of Gabriel at the Royal Academy , but had converted to Catholicism. She was not...

The most highly-regarded piece in this collection is Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (whose title means that it has as many poems as a sonnet has of lines). CR 's preface to this sequence...

AMFR 's article Dante Gabriel Rossetti appeared in the Revue de Paris, a journal founded by her late husband , James Darmesteter.

AMFR published a survey of modern English literature for French readers: Grands écrivains d'outre-manche: lesBrontëAnne Brontë , Thackeray , Les Browning [both Elizabeth and Robert ], Rossetti.

Reviewers found in it a naiveté and artlessness which clearly pleased them. The Academy found the poems so natural sometimes with their faults and their freshness that they affect one like voices out of the...

ATR lived with the Stephens after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith , Henry James (who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)...

The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family...

Her further translations included many poems which were printed in her own volumes of verse, as well as selections from Charles of Orleans and Gaspara Stampa , Literature in the Vernacular (a rendering of Dante

EJP composed The Posthumous Critics of a Dead Poet, and Deathless Poetry, an essay defending the writings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Though set to appear in the Contemporary Review, it was never...

BRP knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays , Harriet Martineau , Anthony Trollope ,...

WM 's associates included George Bernard Shaw , Annie Besant , Emery Walker , Vernon Lee , as well as Emmeline and Sylvia Pankhurst . His friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti ended in 1875, as...