Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
William Michael Rossetti
Standard Name: Rossetti, William Michael
Connections
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Residence | Algernon Charles Swinburne | In 1862 ACS
shared a house with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, William Michael Rossetti
, and George Meredith
in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. (Meredith and William Michael were there only intermittently.) |
Residence | Christina Rossetti | The Rossetti family was reunited again and living together in William Michael
's house at 45 Upper Albany Street, London—all but Dante Gabriel
, who by this time had chambers of his own. Rossetti, Christina. “Memoir; Notes”. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Norwood, 1979, pp. xlv - lxxi; 459. li Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 149-50 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Residence | Christina Rossetti | |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | Christina created her first verse couplet at the age of six. William Rossetti
thought the lines were composed and spoken, as she was too young to write, and that they were correct metre: Celia never... |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | Her brother William
thought her second poem was one about a Chinaman (representing the mainland of China) whose pig-tail (representing Hong Kong) is cut off; this was written to celebrate Britain's victory in the... |
Textual Production | Anna Steele | A collection of 56 letters from William Michael Rossetti
to AS
, written between 1888 and 1911, is held by the University of Manchester
. The National Archives Catalogue. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/default.asp. |
Textual Production | 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... |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | In 1860 CR
produced a gothic short story, Case 2: Folio 2, about a man who produced no reflection in mirrors. Her brother William
remembered it as perhaps the best tale she ever wrote... |
Textual Production | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | She wrote the piece because she was incensed by Oxford professor John Campbell Shairp
's attack on Rossetti (which built on criticism begun by Robert Buchanan
a decade and a half earlier). The entry in... |
Textual Production | Augusta Webster | AW
's Mother and Daughter: An Uncompleted Sonnet-Sequence (inspired by her experience of the passion of maternity) Webster, Augusta, and William Michael Rossetti. Mother and Daughter. Macmillan, 1895. 40 Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 257 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Travel | Vernon Lee | VL
was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson
and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen
, Robert Browning |
Wealth and Poverty | Christina Rossetti | She wrote a new will, giving the money to her brother William
, whose recently deceased wife
had left her property to her children instead of to him. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 564 |
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