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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Family and Intimate relationships | William Morris | 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. |
Occupation | William Morris | Founding members of the Firm included Ford Madox Brown
, Edward Burne-Jones
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, and Philip Webb
, in addition to the proprietors. Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins. 15 Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement: Theory and Practice. Studio Vista. 15 |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Morris | Despite dealing with a debilitating illness, Jane took two lovers during her marriage: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and (later) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | William Morris | 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... |
Friends, Associates | George Meredith | 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 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Mathers | 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
. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 74 |
Textual Production | Helen Mathers | Rossettipredicted a bright future for the poetess “People Of Interest”. The London Journal, Vol. 20 , No. 508, p. 191. 191 Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 74 |
Education | Mina Loy | During her time at the Wood, ML
became very interested in the art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and the other Pre-Raphaelites. Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 41 |
Reception | Vernon Lee | This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde
(refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane
and William Morris |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Jay | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Elgee's translation gained this novel a wider audience. In later years Dante Gabriel Rossetti
developed a positive passion for it, and it became very popular with the Pre-Raphaelites
. Murray, Isobel. “Sidonia the Sorceress: Pre-Raphaelite Cult Book”. Durham University Journal, Vol. 75 , No. 1, pp. 53-7. 53 |
Textual Production | Violet Hunt | The Wife of Rossetti
: Her Life and Death, a biography of Elizabeth Siddal
, was VH
's last publication. It was praised by many writers of the time. Rogers, John H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 162. Gale Research. 162: 140 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | Friends of VH
's family included John Ruskin
, Edward Burne-Jones
, John Millais
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Robert Browning
, and Christina Rossetti
, who read Violet's early poems. VH
also met and... |
Publishing | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
submitted her large painting Gretchen at the Fountain to the British Institution
, which, to the disgust of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, rejected it. Gretchen is a diminutive of Margaret in German: this is... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Mary Howitt | Family biographer Carl Ray Woodring numbers AMH
with a group of Pre-Raphaelite sisters, including Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Margaret Gillies
, who associated themselves with innovation in... |
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