Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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...

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...

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!

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...

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.

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

Having begun to publish in the 1830s, when he became a champion of J. W. Turner against established styles of painting, JR made his name and created a sensation with the appearance of the first...

MS also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter , Catherine Gore , Caroline Norton , and LEL . She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore , Prosper Mérimée , Washington Irving

Despite Rossetti 's protestations of love and promises of marriage, his relationship with ES faltered in the spring of 1856 after her return to London.

The suggestion for publishing these poems had been made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , but he made no further effort to publish them. ES 's work therefore languished until William Michael Rossetti gathered his family's...

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...