Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Standard Name: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Birth Name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Used Form: D. G. Rossetti

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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Siddal
ES was modelling for and studying informally with Dante Gabriel Rossetti ; many have speculated that they became lovers.
Marsh, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. Quartet Books.
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Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
Dante Gabriel Rossetti showed Robert Browning some drawings by ES of a scene from Pippa Passes, with which Rossetti reported him delighted beyond measure.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press.
1: 281
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
Dante Gabriel Rossetti commemorated ES in a posthumous painting of her as Dante 's Beatrice, entitled Beata Beatrix.
Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books.
11
death Elizabeth Siddal
Dante Gabriel Rossetti collected ES 's extant drawings and sketches and had them photographed and put into folios as a memorial for friends.
Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists by Jan Marsh and Pamela Gerrish Nunn reproduces a...
Violence Elizabeth Siddal
Dante Gabriel Rossetti had ES 's coffin exhumed so he could retrieve from it the manuscript of his poems.
Marsh, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. Quartet Books.
258-9
Sheets, Robin Lauterbach. “Pornography and Art: The Case of ‘Jenny’”. Critical Inquiry, Vol.
14
, pp. 315-34.
333
Doughty, Oswald. A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Oxford University Press.
417
Education Elizabeth Siddal
ES was trained in dressmaking and later studied painting informally, in her connection with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , from such artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago.
65, 66
She had no...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Siddal
She met these progressive women, all committed to women's independent work, through Dante Gabriel Rossetti . They took a strong interest in ES , whom Smith saw as a genius despite being under a ban...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Siddal
ES did not meet Dante Gabriel 's mother, Frances Lavinia Rossetti , until April 1855, when he introduced them. Thereafter, it was assumed that the couple were at least unofficially engaged. Ruskin seems to have...
Friends, Associates Mary Shelley
MS also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter , Catherine Gore , Caroline Norton , and LEL . She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore , Prosper Mérimée , Washington Irving
Occupation John Ruskin
Having begun to publish in the 1830s, when he became a champion of J. W. Turner against established styles of painting, JR made his name and created a sensation with the appearance of the first...
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.
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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
was based on her brother Gabriel , who was falling short of his early promise.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
326
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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...

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