Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922.
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Dedications | Katharine Tynan | KT
's second poetry volume, Shamrocks (dedicated to William
and Christina Rossetti
), was said to be one of the earliest attempts to make use of Ossianic
material in Anglo-Irish poetry. Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922. 104-5 Tynan, Katharine. Shamrocks. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1887. prelims Yeats, W. B. Letters to Katharine Tynan. McHugh, RogerEditor , Clonmore and Reynolds, 1953. 26-7, 29 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | His father was the Italian political exile Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe Rossetti
. His mother, born Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori
, was half-Italian. He had an elder sister, Maria Francesca
, and two younger siblings who... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | CR
's brothers Dante Gabriel
and William Michael
were respectively two years and one year older than she was, and were respectively a painter and poet, and a civil servant and literary critic. Their relationship... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ford Madox Ford | Christina Rossetti
was his aunt, and her brothers his uncles, through the marriage of William Michael Rossetti
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | |
Friends, Associates | Mathilde Blind | Other important friends include Dr Louis Mond
, the American Moncure Conway
(who had lost a position at Harvard
for preaching against slavery), Richard Garnett
(who began calling her by her first name in 1870)... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Steele | Through her youngest sister AS
met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell
(Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy
, novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP... |
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 | 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 | Michael Field | While in Paris, they lunched with Anna Swanwick
, who introduced them to Holman Hunt
and his wife
. On the same trip they met William Michael Rossetti
. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge MooreEditors , J. Murray, 1933. 114-15, 116 |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Webster | She made her entry into the city's literary circles with the assistance of Theodore Watts
, later Theodore Watts-Dunton, who was a great supporter of her work and later a colleague at the Athenæum... |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Webster | Vernon Lee
described in a diary entry attending a housewarming party at the Websters' in Hammersmith: An enormous crush, of ill-dressed, eccentric literary pumps. I spoke to Wm Rossetti
, Watts
, Sharp
... |
Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | Her parents, who were the friends of many literary and artistic people, introduced her to an impressive social circle. Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, William Michael Rossetti
, Thomas Hardy
, Walter Pater
,... |
Health | Christina Rossetti | There were certainly physical symptoms, but some have suggested that she was subject also to depression or hysteria. The illness, or perhaps the mental distress, was serious enough to interrupt her preparation for confirmation. Her... |