Long after his wife
's death, DGR
seemed haunted by her memory. In 1868, the year before exhuming her grave, he expressed the belief that her spirit was in a chaffinch he encountered while staying...
Friends, Associates
Christina Rossetti
The next year the Rossetti household was increased by the arrival of Ford Madox Brown
's ten-year-old daughter, Lucy
, who came to them to be educated by Maria. Christina's brother William, who at this...
Gray, Janet. “The Sewing Contest: Christina Rossetti and the Other Women”. A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, Vol.
8
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1993, pp. 233-57.
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Hickok, Kathleen. Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Greenwood Press, 1984.
215
She was also acquainted with Longfellow
, William Bell Scott
Residence
Anna Mary Howitt
On her family's departure for Brussels and thence to Italy, AMH
and Alfred Watts moved to 19 Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. W. B. Scott
remembered them living there around 1880, and described AMH
as...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Inchbald
EI
's novels were reprinted, with an introductory memoir by William Bell Scott
, in a series featuring works of exceptional merit which have dropped out of current circulation.