Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
88, 106
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Friends, Associates | Isabella Neil Harwood | The position of her father
as a journal editor put INH
in contact with several well-known authors of the time. She attended a party with her parents at the house of Dr Westland Marston
... |
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 | William Morris | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Christina Rossetti | Around this time she became aware of her brother Dante Gabriel
's involvement with Elizabeth Siddal
, although she and Siddal met only in 1854 and were never intimate friends. Close family friends of Christina... |
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
.... |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | 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
,... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Mary Howitt | Family biographer Carl Ray Woodring numbers AMH
with a group of Pre-Raphaelite sisters, including Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Margaret Gillies
, who associated themselves with innovation in... |
Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | When William
had a poem published in the Athenæum, however, Christina allowed Gabriel
to select and retitle two of her poems for submission. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 88, 106 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Webster | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Elgee's translation gained this novel a wider audience. In later years Dante Gabriel Rossetti
developed a positive passion for it, and it became very popular with the Pre-Raphaelites
. Murray, Isobel. “Sidonia the Sorceress: Pre-Raphaelite Cult Book”. Durham University Journal, Vol. 75 , No. 1, pp. 53-7. 53 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | 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... |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | In his review for the Evening Herald, W. B. Yeats
judged that this volume was well nigh in all things a thoroughly Irish book, springing straight from the Celtic mind and pouring itself out... |
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