Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Ellen Mathews (who later wrote as HM , then aged, it now seems, about eighteen) sent her first poem, The Token of the Silver Lily, to a family friend who knew Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

Rossettipredicted a bright future for the poetess and wrote her a message to the effect that if she persevered, she bid fair at some future day to succeed. The poem was published...

GM knew the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Swinburne —he sometimes stayed with them while in London. He also knew Emma Caroline Wood , Lucie Duff Gordon , Leslie Stephen , Anne Thackeray Ritchie

WM 's associates included George Bernard Shaw , Annie Besant , Emery Walker , Vernon Lee , as well as Emmeline and Sylvia Pankhurst . His friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti ended in 1875, as...

While still at Oxford , WM began writing poetry with great dedication. He eventually published poems, stories, articles, and a single review (of Robert Browning 's Men and Women) in the periodical he produced...

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.

Founding members of the Firm included Ford Madox Brown , Edward Burne-Jones , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and Philip Webb , in addition to the proprietors.

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

BRP knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays , Harriet Martineau , Anthony Trollope ,...

EJP composed The Posthumous Critics of a Dead Poet, and Deathless Poetry, an essay defending the writings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Though set to appear in the Contemporary Review, it was never...

Her further translations included many poems which were printed in her own volumes of verse, as well as selections from Charles of Orleans and Gaspara Stampa , Literature in the Vernacular (a rendering of Dante

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...

ATR lived with the Stephens after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith , Henry James (who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)...

AMFR 's article Dante Gabriel Rossetti appeared in the Revue de Paris, a journal founded by her late husband , James Darmesteter.

AMFR published a survey of modern English literature for French readers: Grands écrivains d'outre-manche: lesBrontëAnne Brontë , Thackeray , Les Browning [both Elizabeth and Robert ], Rossetti.