She wrote the piece because she was incensed by Oxford professor John Campbell Shairp
's attack on Rossetti (which built on criticism begun by Robert Buchanan
a decade and a half earlier).
The entry in...
Textual Production
Christina Rossetti
In 1860 CR
produced a gothic short story, Case 2: Folio 2, about a man who produced no reflection in mirrors. Her brother William
remembered it as perhaps the best tale she ever wrote...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Siddal
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...
Textual Production
Anna Steele
A collection of 56 letters from William Michael Rossetti
to AS
, written between 1888 and 1911, is held by the University of Manchester
.
The National Archives Catalogue. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/default.asp.
Her work is included in the first part of Nonconformist...
Textual Production
Christina Rossetti
Christina created her first verse couplet at the age of six. William Rossetti
thought the lines were composed and spoken, as she was too young to write, and that they were correct metre: Celia never...
Textual Production
Augusta Webster
AW
's Mother and Daughter: An Uncompleted Sonnet-Sequence (inspired by her experience of the passion of maternity)
Webster, Augusta, and William Michael Rossetti. Mother and Daughter. Macmillan.
40
was posthumously edited by William Michael Rossetti
.
Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
257
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production
Christina Rossetti
Her brother William
thought her second poem was one about a Chinaman (representing the mainland of China) whose pig-tail (representing Hong Kong) is cut off; this was written to celebrate Britain's victory in the...
Residence
Christina Rossetti
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.
Rossetti, Christina. “Memoir; Notes”. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Norwood, pp. xlv - lxxi; 459.
li
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
149-50
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Residence
Christina Rossetti
After the marriage of her brother William
, CR
moved into the house of her aunts and mother
at 30 Torrington Square, London.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
xii
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
439
Residence
Algernon Charles Swinburne
In 1862 ACS
shared a house with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, William Michael Rossetti
, and George Meredith
in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. (Meredith and William Michael were there only intermittently.)
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception
Vernon Lee
One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL
's work was John Addington Symonds
, a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other...
Reception
Vernon Lee
This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde
(refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane
and William Morris
Reception
Christina Rossetti
This best-known poem has had myriad editions, often with illustrations, and generated a wide range of interpretation. It resonates powerfully with CR
's Anglicanism
, and more particularly her experience at the St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary
1864-1867: The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature,...
Building item
1864-1867
The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, pp. 159-80.
163
appeared.
Spring 1874: Artist Lucy Madox Brown married art critic...
Building item
Spring 1874
Artist Lucy Madox Brown
married art critic William Michael Rossetti
, in a joining of Pre-Raphaelite minds and hearts.
28 September 1883: A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant,...
Writing climate item
28 September 1883
A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant
, gathered to found the Company of Authors, later the Society of Authors
, to improve the earning prospects of writers and lobby for copyright protection.
Texts
Rossetti, William Michael, and Augusta Webster. “Introductory Note”. Mother and Daughter, Macmillan, 1895, pp. 11-14.
Rossetti, Christina, and William Michael Rossetti. Maude. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., J. Bowden, 1897.
Rossetti, Christina. “Memoir; Notes”. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Norwood, 1979, pp. xlv - lxxi; 459.
Webster, Augusta, and William Michael Rossetti. Mother and Daughter. Macmillan, 1895.
Rossetti, Christina. New Poems. Editor Rossetti, William Michael, Macmillan, 1896.
Rossetti, William Michael, editor. Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism. George Allen, 1899.
Rossetti, William Michael. Some Reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti. AMS Press, 1970.
Rossetti, Christina. The Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti. Editor Rossetti, William Michael, Haskell House, 1968.
Rossetti, Christina. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti. Editor Rossetti, William Michael, Macmillan, 1904.