William Michael Rossetti

She wrote a new will, giving the money to her brother William , whose recently deceased wife had left her property to her children instead of to him.

VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning

She wrote the piece because she was incensed by Oxford professor John Campbell Shairp 's attack on Rossetti (which built on criticism begun by Robert Buchanan a decade and a half earlier).

In 1860 CR produced a gothic short story, Case 2: Folio 2, about a man who produced no reflection in mirrors. Her brother William remembered it as perhaps the best tale she ever wrote...

The suggestion for publishing these poems had been made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , but he made no further effort to publish them. ES 's work therefore languished until William Michael Rossetti gathered his family's...

A collection of 56 letters from William Michael Rossetti to AS , written between 1888 and 1911, is held by the University of Manchester . Her work is included in the first part of Nonconformist...

Christina created her first verse couplet at the age of six. William Rossetti thought the lines were composed and spoken, as she was too young to write, and that they were correct metre: Celia never...

AW 's Mother and Daughter: An Uncompleted Sonnet-Sequence (inspired by her experience of the passion of maternity) was posthumously edited by William Michael Rossetti .

Her brother William thought her second poem was one about a Chinaman (representing the mainland of China) whose pig-tail (representing Hong Kong) is cut off; this was written to celebrate Britain's victory in the...

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.

After the marriage of her brother William , CR moved into the house of her aunts and mother at 30 Torrington Square, London.

In 1862 ACS shared a house with Dante Gabriel Rossetti , William Michael Rossetti , and George Meredith in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. (Meredith and William Michael were there only intermittently.)

One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL 's work was John Addington Symonds , a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other...

This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde (refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane and William Morris

This best-known poem has had myriad editions, often with illustrations, and generated a wide range of interpretation. It resonates powerfully with CR 's Anglicanism , and more particularly her experience at the St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary