Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
88, 106
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Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | When William
had a poem published in the Athenæum, however, Christina allowed Gabriel
to select and retitle two of her poems for submission. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 88, 106 |
Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research, 1979, 2 vols. vol. 1 |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | As the Victorian period advanced, FH
's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan
published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in... |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | Both William Michael
and Christina Rossetti
greatly admired this play. William Michael called it the supreme thing amid the work of all British poetesses, Rossetti, William Michael, and Augusta Webster. “Introductory Note”. Mother and Daughter, Macmillan, 1895, pp. 11-14. 13 |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Praise for this second public collection was more muted and criticism more probing than before. John Westland Marston
, reviewing this volume too for the Athenæum, was still positive, but regretted that most of... |
Occupation | Christina Rossetti | The notion was that Sisters in Christ would here guide fallen women (who might be professional prostitutes or simply women who had children out of wedlock) to penitence. Work at the penitentiary was a serious... |
Occupation | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Involved—with his brother
, William Holman Hunt
, John Everett Millais
, and others—in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
's critique of the reigning artistic principles and values, DGR
has subsequently become one of the most renowned... |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | CR
's brother William Michael
edited her manuscript poetry and published it posthumously as New Poems, Hitherto Unpublished or Uncollected . OCLC WorldCat records four identified copies bearing the date 1895. Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996. xiii |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | William Michael Rossetti
ordered, edited, and produced a comprehensive, posthumous volume of his sister's work, entitled The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 117 (8 April 1904): 105 Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996. xiii |
Reception | Dora Greenwell | During her lifetime, DG
maintained a loyal and consistent following. William Michael Rossetti
said of her that she produced some work both refined and of genuine feeling to which her appearance and manner corresponded. qtd. in Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable, 1981. 89 |
Reception | Vernon Lee | 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... |
Reception | Vernon Lee | 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 |
Reception | Katharine Tynan | KT
later felt this was a very-much derived little volume. qtd. in Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922. 103 Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne, 1979. 37 qtd. in Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922. 103 |
Reception | Christina Rossetti | 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 |
Reception | Christina Rossetti | A predominantly biographical approach to her poetry dominated until near the close of the twentieth century. Following Mackenzie Bell
's study (which stressed her religious aspect) and William
's brief selective memoir, biographies of CR |
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