Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Standard Name: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Birth Name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Used Form: D. G. Rossetti
Connections
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | |
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 | 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...
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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...
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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/.
: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded...
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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.
15
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
15
Knight, Joseph, 1829 - 1907. The Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Kennikat Press, 1972.
23
: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting The Girlhood...
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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...
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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...
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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.
80
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
July 1850: William Allingham published Poems....
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July 1850
William Allingham
published Poems.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
19
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
March 1858: William Morris published his first volume...
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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.
51
31 March 1859: Edward FitzGerald published, privately and...
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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...
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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.
43
, No. 4, 2001, pp. 31-41. 32-3
Buchanan, Robert Williams. “Immorality in Authorship”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
6
, 15 Sept. 1866, pp. 289-00. 1868: Frederick Startridge Ellis began his publishing...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.