Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 242
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Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | Despite her close connection to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
, little is known of ES
and her life. Griselda Pollock and Deborah Cherry, in Woman as sign in Pre-Raphaelite literature, present a sophisticated analysis of... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | She produced a compelling vision of Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott. Rossetti tried to have her work included in an edition of Tennyson's poems for which Edward Moxon
commissioned illustrations from members of the... |
Occupation | John Ruskin | Having begun to publish in the 1830s, when he became a champion of J. W. Turner
against established styles of painting, JR
made his name and created a sensation with the appearance of the first... |
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... |
Occupation | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Interest in him as a painter and writer has remained fairly steady since his death, increasing after the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
came into greater favour in the later twentieth century. Jerome McGann
... |
Occupation | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Besides this visiting of the homes of the originally poor, EJP
enjoyed embroidery and was also a skilled painter of flowers. She took an interest in the artistic productions of her pre-Raphaelite
contemporaries. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 242 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | While ES
was working as a dressmaker in a milliner's shop, she came into contact with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
through a connection with the family of the principal of the London School of Design
... |
Author summary | Christina Rossetti | CR
wrote and published poetry ranging from religious poetry, love lyrics, and sonnets to narrative and dramatic verse. She published five successive volumes of verse, three collected editions, and many individual poems in anthologies and... |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | CR
, although not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
, published two poems, Dream-land and An End, anonymously in the inaugural issue of the group's periodical, the Germ. Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press, 1979–1990, 3 vols. 1: 237, 241 Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996. xi Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 106 |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | For this publication she turned to Routledge
after F. S. Ellis
dragged their heels. She was paid a £25 advance when the book appeared. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 395-6, 398 |
Textual Features | Gillian Allnutt | Only twelve pages long, GA
's pamphlet is a successful sustained attempt to inhabit the mind ofElizabeth Eleanor Siddal
, a dressmaker, artist and poet,who became the Pre-Raphaelites' favourite model, married D. G. Rossetti |
Textual Features | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Her poem Any Husband to Many a Wife (whose title marks it as a response to Robert Browning
's Any Wife to Any Husband) is a sardonic comment on marital relations. The husband in... |
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 | That December, CR
composed another haunting exploration of women's roles, particularly their place within Pre-Raphaelite
aesthetics, following a visit to her brother's studio, which was crowded with pictures of Elizabeth Siddal
. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 186 Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press, 1979–1990, 3 vols. 3: 463 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Rigby | She concludes that his intellectual powers are of the most brilliant description; but there is, we deliberately aver, not one single great moral quality in their application. In general, Ruskin's writings have all the qualities... |
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