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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 |
Reception | Christina Rossetti | A predominantly biographical approach to her poetry dominated until near the close of the twentieth century. Following Mackenzie Bell
's study (which stressed her religious aspect) and William
's brief selective memoir, biographies of CR |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | CR
's brother William Michael
edited her manuscript poetry and published it posthumously as New Poems, Hitherto Unpublished or Uncollected . OCLC WorldCat records four identified copies bearing the date 1895. Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne. xiii |
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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 117 (8 April 1904): 105 Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne. xiii |
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 | 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... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | As the Victorian period advanced, FH
's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan
published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in... |
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 |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Praise for this second public collection was more muted and criticism more probing than before. John Westland Marston
, reviewing this volume too for the Athenæum, was still positive, but regretted that most of... |
Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research. vol. 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | When William
had a poem published in the Athenæum, however, Christina allowed Gabriel
to select and retitle two of her poems for submission. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 88, 106 |
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... |
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
... |
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