Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
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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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... |
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... |
Publishing | Anna Mary Howitt | During her time in Munich and her briefer time in Oberammergau, AMH
wrote articles which were published in the Ladies' Companion, the Athenæum, and Household Words. Her description of the Oberammergau passion... |
Occupation | Lewis Carroll | He was also an early photographer of some note, who took portraits of John Ruskin
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, and Alfred Lord Tennyson
. |
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 |
Occupation | William Morris | While still at Oxford
, WM
began writing poetry with great dedication. He eventually published poems, stories, articles, and a single review (of Robert Browning
's Men and Women) in the periodical he produced... |
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 |
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... |
Occupation | Robert Williams Buchanan | RWB
was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright. After arriving in London in 1859, he was engaged by the Athenæum. He wrote for several other periodicals, and became known for his attacks on Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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 |
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 |
Literary Setting | Michael Field | The preface addresses the problems of writing historical fiction: A few hard facts are before us, a murder, an abduction, a marriage; with regard to none of these events can Mary Stuart's will be known... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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