William Michael Rossetti

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

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

William Michael Rossetti ordered, edited, and produced a comprehensive, posthumous volume of his sister's work, entitled The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti.

CR 's brother William Michael edited her manuscript poetry and published it posthumously as New Poems, Hitherto Unpublished or Uncollected .

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...

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...

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...

Both William Michael and Christina Rossetti greatly admired this play. William Michael called it the supreme thing amid the work of all British poetesses, and again so fine that I hardly discern where its...

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...

MC was a member of the Albemarle Club . She also belonged to the Society of Authors , and acted as a steward (along with over a hundred other luminaries including Walter Besant

When William had a poem published in the Athenæum, however, Christina allowed Gabriel to select and retitle two of her poems for submission.

There were certainly physical symptoms, but some have suggested that she was subject also to depression or hysteria. The illness, or perhaps the mental distress, was serious enough to interrupt her preparation for confirmation. Her...

Other important friends include Dr Louis Mond , the American Moncure Conway (who had lost a position at Harvard for preaching against slavery), Richard Garnett (who began calling her by her first name in 1870)...

Through her youngest sister AS met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell (Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy , novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP...