Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Jan Marsh
Standard Name: Marsh, Jan
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Eliza Bray | She was Christina Rossetti
's cousin. Marsh, Jan. “Christian Rossetti’s Vocation: The Importance of Goblin Market”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 32 , No. 3-4, 1994, pp. 233-48. 235 |
Friends, Associates | Jean Ingelow | While Greenwell and Ingelow appear to have been close friends, Rossetti's relationship with the latter was a little more fraught. Before they were introduced she acknowledged her envy at the astonishing success of JI
's... |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Her biographer Jan Marsh
considers this serial novel a lively indication of her interests and abilities at the time, and thinks it a shame that it abruptly and inexplicably ceased in August 1852 after eight... |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | CR
's biographer Jan Marsh
calls it at best a failed companion to Sing-Song, and at worst a piece of decorative banality. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 470 |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Jan Marsh
considers Time Fliesthe fruit of a lifetime's spiritual experience and self-knowledge, and as such the most subjective and effective of her religious works. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 530 |
Other Life Event | Christina Rossetti | Her age and inexperience told against her. (These were reasonable objections, quite different, as Jan Marsh
observes, from the racist grounds to which Mary Seacole
attributed her own rejection for the same work at the... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Siddal | 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... |
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 |
Reception | Anna Eliza Bray | Christina Rossetti
later noted that her poem Goblin Market, which was originally titled A Peep at the Goblins, was an imitation of my cousin Mrs. Bray's A Peep at the Pixies. qtd. in Chapman, Alison. The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti. MacMillan, 2000. 77 |
Textual Features | Christina Rossetti | With its intense focus on the question of religious vocation and the sense of inadequacy felt by the eponymous heroine, who is also a writer, this first piece of short fiction can be read autobiographically... |
Textual Features | Anna Eliza Bray | The work contained his thoughts on Christina Rossetti
's Verses. Rossetti scholar Jan Marsh
suggests that his commentary privately embarrassed the younger poet. Marsh, Jan. “Christian Rossetti’s Vocation: The Importance of Goblin Market”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 32 , No. 3-4, 1994, pp. 233-48. 236, 247n10 |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | According to biographer Jan Marsh
, she participated vicariously in the activities of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
from its inception in later 1848. Yet, as Andrew
and Catherine Belsey
have strenuously argued, and as the life... |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired... |
Violence | Elizabeth Siddal | As Marsh
puts it, this deeply transgressive act has since then been a symbol of religious, poetic and personal violation. Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books, 1989. 21 Rossetti himself justified his action to Swinburne
as follows: no one so much as... |
Violence | Christina Rossetti | Biographer Jan Marsh
speculates, on the basis of CR
's oeuvre and of recent observations on the effects of child sexual abuse, that the breakdown, the retreat behind a mask, the bouts of depression, and... |
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Texts
Marsh, Jan. “Christian Rossetti’s Vocation: The Importance of Goblin Market”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
32
, No. 3-4, 1994, pp. 233-48. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
Marsh, Jan. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999.
Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery, 1991.
Marsh, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. Quartet Books, 1985.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists. Manchester City Art Galleries, 1997.
Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books, 1989.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.