Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Standard Name: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Birth Name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Used Form: D. G. Rossetti
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Augusta Webster | She made her entry into the city's literary circles with the assistance of Theodore Watts
, later Theodore Watts-Dunton, who was a great supporter of her work and later a colleague at the Athenæum... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Webster | |
Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | EW
published his first book, a generally well-reviewed biography entitled Rossetti
: His Life and Works. |
Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | After EW
's book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, which was connected with his early ambition to be an artist, came a number of biographically-oriented works which sprang from his Catholic faith. His lives of... |
Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Some of the fifteen poems chronicle the end of a love affair, perhaps foreshadowing her own marital crisis. Scholar Linda K. Hughes
notes the influence of Christina
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Jean Ingelow
... |
Reception | Katharine Tynan | KT
later felt this was a very-much derived little volume. Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards. 103 Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne. 37 Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards. 103 |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | In his review for the Evening Herald, W. B. Yeats
judged that this volume was well nigh in all things a thoroughly Irish book, springing straight from the Celtic mind and pouring itself out... |
Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
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. 12-13 |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | After leaving Eton
, he met Lady Pauline
and Walter Trevelyan
, who became longtime friends and supporters. At Oxford he was first introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites
, and he forged friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Residence | Algernon Charles Swinburne | In 1862 ACS
shared a house with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, William Michael Rossetti
, and George Meredith
in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. (Meredith and William Michael were there only intermittently.) Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Anna Steele | The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book. The Academy. 11 (3 February 1877): 91 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
, pre-Raphaelite model-turned-artist, married writer and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti
at St Clement's Church in Hastings. Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago. 72 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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 |
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 legendaryArthurian
romances, Le Morte d'Arthur.
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.
: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded...
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
was founded in rebellion against the constraints and techniques of art as practised by the Royal Academy
.
: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting The Girlhood...
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Spring1849
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 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
.
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
.
February 1850: Dante Gabriel Rossetti published The Blessed...
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February 1850
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
published The Blessed Damozel in The Germ.
July 1850: William Allingham published Poems....
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July 1850
William Allingham
published Poems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Texts
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. Macmillan, 1875.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press, 1967.
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.