Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family-Letters, with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family-Letters, with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family-Letters, with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family-Letters, with a Memoir by William Michael Rossetti

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Overview

This two-volume work, published in 1895, illuminates the life of a Victorian poet and painter through letters and a memoir.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108052054
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 06/28/2012
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
Pages: 486
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Memoir; 1. Birth; 2. Parentage; 3. Relatives; 4. Childhood; 5. Acquaintances in childhood; 6. Childish book-reading and scribbling; 7. School; 8. Home-life during school; 9. Study for the painting profession; 10. Student-life; 11. Friends towards 1847; 12. Madox Brown, Holman Hunt, Millais; 13. The Praeraphaelite Brotherhood; 14. First exhibited picture, 1849; 15. The Germ; 16. Paintings and writings, 1849–53; 17. Miss Siddal; 18. John Ruskin; 19. Work in 1854–5–6; 20. Oxford men and work; 21. Work in 1858–59; 22. marriage; 23. Married life; 24. Work in 1860–61; 25. Death of Mrs Dante Rossetti; 26. Settling in Cheyne Walk; 27. Work from 1862 to 1868; 28. Incidents, 1862 to 1868; 29. Beginnings of ill-health; 30. Preparations for publishing poems; 31. Art-work from 1869 to summer 1872; 32. The poems, 1870; 33. The fleshly school of poetry; 34. Hypochondria and illness; 35. Stay and work at Kelmscott, 1872–4; 36. London and elsewhere, 1874–8; 37. Incidents and transactions, 1874–81; 38. Paintings and poems; 39. Dante's dream; 40. Cumberland and London; 41. Birchington-on-Sea; 42. Death and funeral; 43. Personal details; 44. Rossetti as painter and poet.
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