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.
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
...
Literary responses
Augusta Webster
Both William Michael
and Christina Rossetti
greatly admired this play. William Michael called it the supreme thing amid the work of all British poetesses,
Rossetti, William Michael, and Augusta Webster. “Introductory Note”. Mother and Daughter, Macmillan, pp. 11-14.
13
and again so fine that I hardly discern where its...
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.
104-5
Tynan, Katharine. Shamrocks. Kegan Paul, Trench.
prelims
Yeats, W. B. Letters to Katharine Tynan. Editor McHugh, Roger, Clonmore and Reynolds.
26-7, 29
Reception
Katharine Tynan
KT
later felt this was a very-much derived little volume.
Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards.
103
Her critics have observed the influence on it of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, especially Christina
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
.
Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne.
37
Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards.
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/.
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...
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
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...
Publishing
Christina Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti
ordered, edited, and produced a comprehensive, posthumous volume of his sister's work, entitled The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
xiii
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...
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...
Occupation
Christina Rossetti
The notion was that Sisters in Christ would here guide fallen women (who might be professional prostitutes or simply women who had children out of wedlock) to penitence. Work at the penitentiary was a serious...
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.
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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.