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Textual Features | Gillian Allnutt | Only twelve pages long, GA
's pamphlet is a successful sustained attempt to inhabit the mind ofElizabeth Eleanor Siddal
, a dressmaker, artist and poet,who became the Pre-Raphaelites' favourite model, married D. G. Rossetti |
Friends, Associates | Mathilde Blind | One of her travelling companions (and a close friend) was the New Woman novelist Mona Caird
(famous for her declaration calling the institution of marriage a vexatious failure in the Westminster Review in 1888). Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 38 |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | In spring 1854 Barbara Leigh Smith
took care of Elizabeth Siddal
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
's ailing fiancé and model, at her house near Hastings. Her ties to the Pre-Raphaelite
circle later weakened, but... |
Literary responses | Robert Browning | It was initially ridiculed by critics for its apparent obscurity. RB
's biographer Donald Thomas
calls it one of the greatest literary disasters in the history of English poetry Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 75 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Shortly before her death, MEC
finished her work on an illustrated life of the still-living Pre-Raphaelite
artist Holman Hunt. Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research. 77 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Hunt asked her to produce the book for the Masterpieces in Colour series. It was posthumously published in 1908. 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. Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Memoir and Editorial Materials”. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, edited by Edith Sichel, Constable, pp. 1 - 44; various pages. 14 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | The artistic pursuits of EG
's daughter Meta produced friendships with John Ruskin
and with Pre-RaphaelitesWilliam Holman Hunt
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 455 |
Leisure and Society | Iza Duffus Hardy | IDH
may have had an interest in Pre-Raphaelite
art, since in 1872 she composed a letter in support of renowned painter Ford Madox Brown
's nomination to a professorship at Cambridge
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | VH
's father, Alfred William Hunt
, was born in Liverpool on 15 November 1830. He associated with (though he was not a formal member of) the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
. In 1932 VH
called herself... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Elgee's translation gained this novel a wider audience. In later years Dante Gabriel Rossetti
developed a positive passion for it, and it became very popular with the Pre-Raphaelites
. Murray, Isobel. “Sidonia the Sorceress: Pre-Raphaelite Cult Book”. Durham University Journal, Vol. 75 , No. 1, pp. 53-7. 53 |
Literary responses | Eliza Meteyard | The Athenæum complained that her self-described Pre-Raphaelite
style was weak and overworn, Athenæum. J. Lection. 1524 (1857): 49 |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Morris | On 26 April 1859, WM
married Jane Burden
, a Pre-Raphaelite
muse who had posed both for him and for Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. In 1861 and 1862, Jane gave birth to two daughters. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Her poem Any Husband to Many a Wife (whose title marks it as a response to Robert Browning
's Any Wife to Any Husband) is a sardonic comment on marital relations. The husband in... |
Occupation | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Besides this visiting of the homes of the originally poor, EJP
enjoyed embroidery and was also a skilled painter of flowers. She took an interest in the artistic productions of her pre-Raphaelite
contemporaries. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 242 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Rigby | She concludes that his intellectual powers are of the most brilliant description; but there is, we deliberately aver, not one single great moral quality in their application. In general, Ruskin's writings have all the qualities... |
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