Dante Gabriel Rossetti

12 May 1828 - 09 April 1882

Standard Name: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Birth Name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti

Used Form: D. G. Rossetti

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Cultural formation	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	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...
death	Elizabeth Siddal	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...
death	Elizabeth Siddal	Dante Gabriel Rossetti commemorated ES in a posthumous painting of her as Dante 's Beatrice, entitled Beata Beatrix. Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books, 1989. 11
death	Elizabeth Siddal	Dante Gabriel Rossetti collected ES 's extant drawings and sketches and had them photographed and put into folios as a memorial for friends. Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists by Jan Marsh and Pamela Gerrish Nunn reproduces a...
Education	Mina Loy	During her time at the Wood, ML became very interested in the art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the other Pre-Raphaelites. Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996. 41
Education	Elizabeth Siddal	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 . Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989. 65, 66 She had no...
Education	Adrienne Rich	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...
Education	Elizabeth Taylor	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. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 12-13 When Betty was eleven...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Butts	His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts , had been a patron of William Blake
Family and Intimate relationships	Christina Rossetti	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...
Family and Intimate relationships	Christina Rossetti	On 24 November 1876 CR 's sister Maria died of cancer after a painful illness. She was followed by Dante Gabriel on 9 April 1882, then by CR 's long-time friend Charles Cayley (for whom...
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth Siddal	ES did not meet Dante Gabriel 's mother, Frances Lavinia Rossetti , until April 1855, when he introduced them. Thereafter, it was assumed that the couple were at least unofficially engaged. Ruskin seems to have...
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth Siddal	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. qtd. in Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery, 1991. 15
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/.
Family and Intimate relationships	William Morris	Despite dealing with a debilitating illness, Jane took two lovers during her marriage: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and (later) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt . Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Timeline

By 3 March 1470

Sir Thomas Malory , a political prisoner in London, most probably in the Tower, finished compiling and writing his collection of legendary Arthurian romances, Le Morte d'Arthur.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

14 September 1767

Midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg was hanged at Tyburn (in London near the present Marble Arch) for the murder of Mary Clifford , a workhouse apprentice.

Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.

300

English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Autumn 1848

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in rebellion against the constraints and techniques of art as practised by the Royal Academy .

Bell, Quentin. Victorian Artists. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.

31-2, 38

Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.

373

Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.

Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.

Knight, Joseph, 1829 - 1907. The Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Kennikat Press, 1972.

Spring 1849

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (featuring Christina Rossetti as its model) appearing at the Free Exhibition at Hyde Park Gallery , was the first to display the initials of the...

1850

The Royal Academy unleashed the full weight of its criticism against the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood .

Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.

281-3

February 1850

Dante Gabriel Rossetti published The Blessed Damozel in The Germ.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “The Blessed Damozel”. The Germ, No. 2, Aylott and Jones, Feb. 1850, pp. 80-83.

Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

July 1850

William Allingham published Poems.

Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

March 1858

William Morris published his first volume of poetry, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems.

Henderson, Philip. William Morris: His Life, Work, and Friends. Thames and Hudson, 1967.

31 March 1859

Edward FitzGerald published, privately and anonymously in a limited edition on his fiftieth birthday, his free translation in couplet stanzas of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Martin, Robert Bernard. With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward Fitzgerald. Atheneum, 1985.

210, 218-20

Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .

31 March 2008

Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .

31 March 2009

Later 1866

Robert Williams Buchanan published an essay on Immorality in Authorship in the Fortnightly Review, and, under the pseudonym of Caliban in the Spectator, attacked Swinburne in a poem called The Session of the Poets.

Strevens, Adam. “Literature, Morality, and the Adversarial Principle: The Fleshly School of Poetry Quarrel and the trial of Lady Chatterleys LoverCritical Quarterly, Vol.

, No. 4, 2001, pp. 31-41.

32-3

Buchanan, Robert Williams. “Immorality in Authorship”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.

, 15 Sept. 1866, pp. 289-00.

1868

Frederick Startridge Ellis began his publishing career by issuing (in a single volume) parts one and two of William Morris 's poem or series of poems The Earthly Paradise.

Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.

106: 131

Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

304, 671

25 April 1870

Dante Gabriel Rossetti published a collection of Poems, which included Sister Helen, Jenny, and the first part of his sonnet sequence The House of Life.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

October 1871

Robert Williams Buchanan published in the Contemporary Review, under the pseudonym Thomas Maitland, his critique of what he dubbed The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D. G. Rossetti.

Cassidy, John A. Robert W. Buchanan. Twayne, 1974.

13, 46-7

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.

By 8 October 1881

Dante Gabriel Rossetti published Ballads and Sonnets, which included the latter part of his sonnet sequence The House of Life and new historical ballads like The King's Tragedy and The White Ship.

Athenæum. J. Lection.

2815 (1881): 457

Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Texts

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Ballads and Sonnets. Ellis and White, 1881.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Collected Poetry and Prose. Editor McGann, Jerome, Yale University Press, 2003.

Rossetti, Christina, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems. New ed., Macmillan, 1875.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press, 1967, 4 vols.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Poems. F. S. Ellis, 1870.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “The Blessed Damozel”. The Germ, No. 2, Aylott and Jones, pp. 80-83.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive”. University of Virginia: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), edited by Jerome McGann.

Rossetti, Christina, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1866.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Timeline

By 3 March 1470: Sir Thomas Malory, a political prisoner in...

By 3 March 1470

14 September 1767: Midwife Elizabeth Brownrigg was hanged at...

14 September 1767

: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded...

Autumn 1848