Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Marsh, Jan. “Christian Rossetti’s Vocation: The Importance of Goblin Market”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
32
, No. 3-4, pp. 233-48.
235
There is some dispute over their exact relation. In the notes to her collected poems, Rossetti
calls AEB
her cousin. Scholars John Sutherland and Jan Marsh
also refer...
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.
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.
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.
Chapman, Alison. The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti. MacMillan.
77
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, pp. 233-48.
236, 247n10
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 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...
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...
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.
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, 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.