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Literary responses | A. Mary F. Robinson | Reviewers found in it a naiveté and artlessness which clearly pleased them. The Academy found the poems so natural sometimes with their faults and their freshness that they affect one like voices out of the... |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | Following the production of Verses, her brother Gabriel
showed more interest in CR
, discussing poetry with her and suggesting that they compose on the same subjects. He came up with the idea of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | When William
had a poem published in the Athenæum, however, Christina allowed Gabriel
to select and retitle two of her poems for submission. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 88, 106 |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | According to biographer Jan Marsh
, she participated vicariously in the activities of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
from its inception in later 1848. Yet, as Andrew
and Catherine Belsey
have strenuously argued, and as the life... |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Dante Gabriel Rossetti
disliked The Lowest Room, believing it too much influenced by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's falsetto muscularity. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 184 |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | She noted that it was initially titled A Peep at the Goblins in imitation of her cousin Anna Eliza Bray
's recent book, A Peep at the Pixies; Gabriel
came up with the title... |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | On her own initiative, CR
in 1861 sent several short poems to Macmillan's Magazine. The editor, David Masson
, accepted Up-hill and paid her a guinea for it. Thereafter, she published poems in this... |
Occupation | Christina Rossetti | CR
posed as an artists' model for her brother Dante Gabriel
's painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin. The next year she took on the same role for his Ecce ancilla Domini! Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne. xi Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 90 |
Textual Features | Christina Rossetti | Among the other poems were a number that dealt with illicit sexuality. Cousin Kate uses ballad metre to explore the sexual double standard and lack of female solidarity. The speaker, a humble cottager seduced by... |
Residence | Christina Rossetti | The Rossetti family was reunited again and living together in William Michael
's house at 45 Upper Albany Street, London—all but Dante Gabriel
, who by this time had chambers of his own. Rossetti, Christina. “Memoir; Notes”. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Norwood, pp. xlv - lxxi; 459. li Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 149-50 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Arthur Munby
read with strong admiration & pleasure Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray. 119 |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | CR
published the collection Goblin Market and Other Poems with illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne. xii Athenæum. J. Lection. 1800 (1862): 558 Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 281 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christina Rossetti | The protagonist of the title poem, which the author noted was the reverse of the Sleeping Beauty, Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 323 Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 326 |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | CR
published her second volume, which was entitled The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2017 (1866): 824 Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne. xii |
Textual Features | Christina Rossetti | The internal monologue The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children occupied a bridging position in this volume between the first section of secular poems, and the final shorter section of devotional pieces. Its scriptural... |
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