Synopses & Reviews
Based on a rich range of primary sources and manuscripts, A Rossetti Family Chronology breaks exciting new ground. Focusing on Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Chronolgy deomstrates the interconnectedness of their friendships and creativity, giving information about literary composition and artistic output, publication and exhibition, reviews, finances, relationships, health and detailing literary and artistic influences. Drawing on many unpublished sources, including family letters and diaries, this new volume in the Author Chronologies series will be of value to all students and scholars of the Rossettis.
Synopsis
This book focuses on Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, it demonstrates the interconnectedness of their friendships and creativity, giving information about literary composition and artistic output, publication and exhibition, and details literary and artistic influences. It draws on many unpublished sources, including letters and diaries.
About the Author
ALISON CHAPMAN is Associate Professor in the English Department of the University of Victoria, Canada. Her publications include
The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti, Victorian Women Poets, The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry (co-edited with Richard Cronin and Anthony H. Harrison), and
Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy (co-edited with Jane Stabler).
JOANNA MEACOCK teaches at the University of Glasgow, UK and is among a team of researchers forming an online catalogue raisonné of Whistler's etchings. She is editor of the Journal for the Scottish Society for Art History.
Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface * Editor's Preface * Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Family Tree * A Rossetti Family Chronology * Bibliography * Index