Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Biographers have tended to adopt Robert Browning's scornful skepticism of the spiritualist movement, but it was not a fringe phenomenon. EBB was, historian Alex Owen argues, characteristic of those attracted to spiritualism by its deeply...

ES died of a large overdose of laudanum. This was officially deemed an accident, but was likely suicide, as suggested by a note which Dante Gabriel Rossetti suppressed; she had been pregnant again, and unwell...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti commemorated ES in a posthumous painting of her as Dante 's Beatrice, entitled Beata Beatrix.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti collected ES 's extant drawings and sketches and had them photographed and put into folios as a memorial for friends.

Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. When Betty was eleven...

The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family...

During her time at the Wood, ML became very interested in the art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the other Pre-Raphaelites.

ES was trained in dressmaking and later studied painting informally, in her connection with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , from such artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown . She had no...

Despite Rossetti 's protestations of love and promises of marriage, his relationship with ES faltered in the spring of 1856 after her return to London.

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.

Frances was to some extent a writer, but as her son Dante Gabriel later said, her considerable potential as an author was stifled by the exercise of an entire self-abnegation on behalf of her family...

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...

Despite dealing with a debilitating illness, Jane took two lovers during her marriage: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and (later) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt .

He had been a member of the Christ Church congregation to which she belonged, as well as a fellow student of Gabriel at the Royal Academy , but had converted to Catholicism. She was not...

Major upheavals in the family took place from about 1872. CR 's brother Gabriel became paranoid and suicidal on the negative reception of his Poems (1870), and the next year William announced his upcoming marriage...