Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

EB probably first met painter George Frederic Watts before she was married, at the studio of Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

The final line invokes Wordsworth 's The Female Vagrant, andIB also echoes Thomas Hood 's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant...

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...

This bowdlerized version of EB 's novel and her poetry circulated widely and received many reviews. H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum pronounced the re-publication of the two novels an illustration of English female genius...

During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Tennyson , Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti , and Charles Kingsley ....

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...

RWB was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. After arriving in London in 1859, he was engaged by the Athenæum. He wrote for several other periodicals, and became known for his attacks on Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

He was also an early photographer of some note, who took portraits of John Ruskin , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Alfred Lord Tennyson .

Others are more creative. She asked another shy English girl whether she would rather have had Shelley, Keats, or Byron for a lover, and on receiving no answer she continued: I'd give all three of...

This volume included contributions by herself, Bessie Rayner Parkes , and Mary Howitt , as well as two poems by the Rossettis: Christina 's A Royal Princess and Dante Gabriel 's Sudden Light. The...

The novel concerns an American writer, Elfrida Bell, from Sparta, Illinois, who is seen as a product of the fin-de-siècle. Her role as a francophile who champions the poetry of Rossetti and Swinburne places...

Many friends of GE including Edith J. Simcox , plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight , believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes for his tireless protection of GE

As a story-teller Evans has a sure grasp, making every tiny detail contribute to an effect which is understated but emotionally powerful. The named character in Miss Potts and Music is largely a peg for...