Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Standard Name: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Birth Name: Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
Used Form: D. G. Rossetti
Oval-framed, head and shoulders painting by William Holman Hunt of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, said to be aged twenty-two. Rossetti looks down and forward, wide-eyed, in a black coat against a light blue background. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Half-length portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, c. 1871, by George Frederic Watts. Rossetti, bald and bearded, is wearing dark clothes against an almost equally dark background. National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
EW published his first book, a generally well-reviewed biography entitled Rossetti : His Life and Works.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
After EW 's book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti , which was connected with his early ambition to be an artist, came a number of biographically-oriented works which sprang from his Catholic faith. His lives of...
Textual Production A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR published a survey of modern English literature for French readers: Grands écrivains d'outre-manche: lesBrontëAnne Brontë , Thackeray , Les Browning [both Elizabeth and Robert ], Rossetti.
Textual Production Helen Mathers
Rossettipredicted a bright future for the poetess
“People Of Interest”. The London Journal, Vol.
20
, No. 508, 9 Sept. 1893, p. 191.
191
and wrote her a message to the effect that if she persevered, she bid fair at some future day to succeed.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
74
The poem was published...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sara Jeannette Duncan
The novel concerns an American writer, Elfrida Bell, from Sparta, Illinois, who is seen as a product of the fin-de-siècle. Her role as a francophile who champions the poetry of Rossetti and Swinburne places...
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, 1995.
323
was based on her brother Gabriel , who was falling short of his early promise.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
326
Spurred...
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, 1985.
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Sheets, Robin Lauterbach. “Pornography and Art: The Case of ‘Jenny’”. Critical Inquiry, Vol.
14
, 1 Dec. 1988–28 Feb. 1989, pp. 315-34.
333
Doughty, Oswald. A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1960.
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