Dante Gabriel 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.

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...

CR published the collection Goblin Market and Other Poems with illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

Arthur Munby read with strong admiration & pleasure a review copy before publication, remembering having heard Gabriel read some of these poems from manuscript years before. His diary pronounced them vigorous, sensuous, keenly observant...

CR published her second volume, which was entitled The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

The protagonist of the title poem, which the author noted was the reverse of the Sleeping Beauty, was based on her brother Gabriel , who was falling short of his early promise. Spurred...

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...

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...

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...

Gabriel anticipated critics when he described Commonplace as a prose tale . . . rather in the Austen vein. Contrasting Commonplace, and Other Short Stories with tawdry romance, the...

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...

The most highly-regarded piece in this collection is Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (whose title means that it has as many poems as a sonnet has of lines). CR 's preface to this sequence...

Around this time she became aware of her brother Dante Gabriel 's involvement with Elizabeth Siddal , although she and Siddal met only in 1854 and were never intimate friends. Close family friends of Christina...

CR 's critical reputation stood very high from the appearance of Goblin Market, although she was not a popular poet. H. Buxton Forman in Our Living Poets, 1871, got her middle name wrong...

Major upheavals in the family took place from about 1872. CR 's brother Gabriel became paranoid and suicidal on the negative reception of his Poems (1870), and the next year William announced his upcoming marriage...