Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti disliked The Lowest Room, believing it too much influenced by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's falsetto muscularity.

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...

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

Arthur Munby read with strong admiration & pleasure a review copy before publication, remembering having heard Gabriel read some of these poems from manuscript years before. His diary pronounced them vigorous, sensuous, keenly observant...

In a letter, George Meredith called MF 's characterization of Mary an arresting study.. He said he hoped that neither woman had been wounded by a most unjust review in the press.

Jan Marsh, whose books on ES are the most sustained studies to date, has done much to raise awareness of ES's significance in the Pre-Raphaelite movement and of the interest of both her visual and...

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...

The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book.

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...

The copies printed were distributed among friends and family. They all enjoyed the poems except Christina's brother Gabriel , who somewhat cattily wrote to their mother: I should advise her to console herself with the...

The preface addresses the problems of writing historical fiction: A few hard facts are before us, a murder, an abduction, a marriage; with regard to none of these events can Mary Stuart's will be known...

Ellen Mathews (who later wrote as HM , then aged, it now seems, about eighteen) sent her first poem, The Token of the Silver Lily, to a family friend who knew Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

He was also an early photographer of some note, who took portraits of John Ruskin , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Alfred Lord Tennyson .

CR posed as an artists' model for her brother Dante Gabriel 's painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin. The next year she took on the same role for his Ecce ancilla Domini!

While still at Oxford , WM began writing poetry with great dedication. He eventually published poems, stories, articles, and a single review (of Robert Browning 's Men and Women) in the periodical he produced...