Dante Gabriel 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...

Following the production of Verses, her brother Gabriel showed more interest in CR , discussing poetry with her and suggesting that they compose on the same subjects. He came up with the idea of...

When William had a poem published in the Athenæum, however, Christina allowed Gabriel to select and retitle two of her poems for submission.

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...

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

She noted that it was initially titled A Peep at the Goblins in imitation of her cousin Anna Eliza Bray 's recent book, A Peep at the Pixies; Gabriel came up with the title...

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!

On her own initiative, CR in 1861 sent several short poems to Macmillan's Magazine. The editor, David Masson , accepted Up-hill and paid her a guinea for it. Thereafter, she published poems in this...

The Rossetti family was reunited again and living together in William Michael 's house at 45 Upper Albany Street, London—all but Dante Gabriel , who by this time had chambers of his own.

Among the other poems were a number that dealt with illicit sexuality. Cousin Kate uses ballad metre to explore the sexual double standard and lack of female solidarity. The speaker, a humble cottager seduced by...

CR published the collection Goblin Market and Other Poems with illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

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...

CR published her second volume, which was entitled The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

The protagonist of the title poem, which the author noted was the reverse of the Sleeping Beauty, was based on her brother Gabriel , who was falling short of his early promise. Spurred...

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...