Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Standard Name: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Birth Name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Used Form: D. G. Rossetti
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Gillian Allnutt | Only twelve pages long, GA
's pamphlet is a successful sustained attempt to inhabit the mind ofElizabeth Eleanor Siddal
, a dressmaker, artist and poet,who became the Pre-Raphaelites' favourite model, married D. G. Rossetti |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | EB
probably first met painter George Frederic Watts
before she was married, at the studio of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. There is some uncertainty as to the date of EB
's first meeting with Watts... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isa Blagden | The final line invokes Wordsworth
's The Female Vagrant, andIB
also echoes Thomas Hood
's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | In spring 1854 Barbara Leigh Smith
took care of Elizabeth Siddal
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
's ailing fiancé and model, at her house near Hastings. Her ties to the Pre-Raphaelite
circle later weakened, but... |
Literary responses | Emily Brontë | This bowdlerized version of EB
's novel and her poetry circulated widely and received many reviews. H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum pronounced the re-publication of the two novels an illustration of English female genius... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin
, Jane
and Thomas Carlyle
, Alfred Tennyson
, Dante Gabriel
and William Michael Rossetti
, and Charles Kingsley
.... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Occupation | Robert Williams Buchanan | RWB
was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. After arriving in London in 1859, he was engaged by the Athenæum. He wrote for several other periodicals, and became known for his attacks on Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts
, had been a patron of William Blake |
Occupation | Lewis Carroll | He was also an early photographer of some note, who took portraits of John Ruskin
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, and Alfred Lord Tennyson
. |
Textual Features | Blanche Warre Cornish | Others are more creative. She asked another shy English girl whether she would rather have had Shelley, Keats, or Byron for a lover, and on receiving no answer she continued: I'd give all three of... |
Textual Production | Isa Craig | This volume included contributions by herself, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Mary Howitt
, as well as two poems by the Rossettis: Christina
's A Royal Princess and Dante Gabriel
's Sudden Light. The... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sara Jeannette Duncan | The novel concerns an American writer, Elfrida Bell, from Sparta, Illinois, who is seen as a product of the fin-de-siècle. Her role as a francophile who champions the poetry of Rossetti
and Swinburne
places... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Many friends of GE
including Edith J. Simcox
, plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight
, believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes
for his tireless protection of GE |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margiad Evans | As a story-teller Evans has a sure grasp, making every tiny detail contribute to an effect which is understated but emotionally powerful. The named character in Miss Potts and Music is largely a peg for... |
Timeline
By 3 March 1470: Sir Thomas Malory, a political prisoner in...
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By 3 March 1470
Sir Thomas Malory
, a political prisoner in London, most probably in the Tower, finished compiling and writing his collection of legendaryArthurian
romances, Le Morte d'Arthur.
14 September 1767: Midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg was hanged at...
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14 September 1767
Midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg
was hanged at Tyburn (in London near the present Marble Arch) for the murder of Mary Clifford
, a workhouse apprentice.
: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded...
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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
.
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
.
February 1850: Dante Gabriel Rossetti published The Blessed...
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February 1850
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
published The Blessed Damozel in The Germ.
July 1850: William Allingham published Poems....
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July 1850
William Allingham
published Poems.
March 1858: William Morris published his first volume...
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March 1858
William Morris
published his first volume of poetry, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems.
31 March 1859: Edward FitzGerald published, privately and...
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31 March 1859
Edward FitzGerald
published, privately and anonymously in a limited edition on his fiftieth birthday, his free translation in couplet stanzas of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Later 1866: Robert Williams Buchanan published an essay...
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Later 1866
Robert Williams Buchanan
published an essay on Immorality in Authorship in the Fortnightly Review, and, under the pseudonym of Caliban in the Spectator, attacked Swinburne
in a poem called The Session of the Poets.
1868: Frederick Startridge Ellis began his publishing...
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1868
Frederick Startridge Ellis
began his publishing career by issuing (in a single volume) parts one and two of William Morris
's poem or series of poems The Earthly Paradise.
25 April 1870: Dante Gabriel Rossetti published a collection...
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25 April 1870
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
published a collection of Poems, which included Sister Helen, Jenny, and the first part of his sonnet sequence The House of Life.
October 1871: Robert Williams Buchanan published in the...
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October 1871
Robert Williams Buchanan
published in the Contemporary Review, under the pseudonym Thomas Maitland, his critique of what he dubbed The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D. G. Rossetti.
By 8 October 1881: Dante Gabriel Rossetti published Ballads...
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By 8 October 1881
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
published Ballads and Sonnets, which included the latter part of his sonnet sequence The House of Life and new historical ballads like The King's Tragedy and The White Ship.
Texts
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Collected Poetry and Prose. Editor McGann, Jerome, Yale University Press, 2003.
Rossetti, Christina, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1875.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press, 1967.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “The Blessed Damozel”. The Germ, No. 2, Aylott and Jones, pp. 80-83.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive”. University of Virginia: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), edited by Jerome McGann.
Rossetti, Christina, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1866.