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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... |
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 |
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... |
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/. |
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... |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | Frances was to some extent a writer, but as her son Dante Gabriel
later said, her considerable potential as an author was stifled by the exercise of an entire self-abnegation on behalf of her family... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | CR
's brothers Dante Gabriel
and William Michael
were respectively two years and one year older than she was, and were respectively a painter and poet, and a civil servant and literary critic. Their relationship... |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Gabriel
anticipated critics when he described Commonplace as a prose tale . . . rather in the Austen
vein. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press. 2: 818 Athenæum. J. Lection. 2223 (1870): 734 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | He had been a member of the Christ Church
congregation to which she belonged, as well as a fellow student of Gabriel
at the Royal Academy
, but had converted to Catholicism. She was not... |
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