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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Leisure and Society | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
began her married life with a daily servant (who came at 8 a.m. and stayed till 9 p.m.) instead of the live-in one her mother had employed. Though she was a great attender at... |
Occupation | Christina Rossetti | The second title uses the Latin version of the words which the Virgin Mary
spoke to the angel of the Annunciation, in English Behold the handmaid of the Lord!CR
sat also as model for... |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | 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... |
Occupation | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Involved—with his brother
, William Holman Hunt
, John Everett Millais
, and others—in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
's critique of the reigning artistic principles and values, DGR
has subsequently become one of the most renowned... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | While ES
was working as a dressmaker in a milliner's shop, she came into contact with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
through a connection with the family of the principal of the London School of Design
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fay Weldon | Fay's maternal grandmother, whom she calls Frieda early in her autobiography but Nona from the time they became close, and who was called Susan by her husband, had modelled for Holman Hunt
as a girl... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's mother, née Julia Prinsep Jackson
(1846-95), was born in India and brought to England as a toddler. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File. 267 |
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