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The letters of Christina Rossetti. Ed Anthony H. Harrison. A 4-vol
edn in progress. Vol 1 1842–73, Charlottesville VA 1997.
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The first wave in the critical revaluation of C.G. R. occurred at the time of the
centenary of her birth in 1930, followed in the 1960s by the interest generated
by Lona Mosk Packer’s biography and her edn of C.G. R.’s letters to Macmillan
(see above). The past 2 decades have witnessed a major revival of critical interest
in the life and works of Christina Rossetti. Recent studies are subsumed
under 3 headings: (1) collections of critical essays; (2) biographies; and (3) critical
studies.
Forman, H. B. In his Our living poets, 1871.
Symons, A. In Poets and poetry of the century, ed A. H. Miles, 10 vols
1891–7.
Law, A. The poetry of Christina Rossetti. Westminster Rev 143 1895.
Nash, J. J. G. A memorial sermon for the late Christina Rossetti. 1895.
Noble, J. A. The burden of Christina Rossetti. In his Impressions and
memories, 1895.
Procter, E. A. A brief memoir of Christina Rossetti. 1895.
Watts-Dunton, T. Reminiscences of Christina Rossetti. Nineteenth
Cent Feb 1895.
Benson, A. C. In his Essays, 1896.
Gosse, E. In his Critical kit-kats, 1896.
Symons, A. In his Studies in two literatures, 1897.
Bell, M. Christina Rossetti: a biographical and critical study. 1898.
Westcott, B. F. An appreciation of the late Christina Rossetti. 1899.
Cary, E. L. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina. New York
1900.
More, P. E. In his Shelburne essays: third series, New York 1905.
Breme, M. I. Christina Rossetti und der Einfluss der Bibel auf ihre
Dichtung. Münster 1907.
Hueffer, F. M. [Ford]. Christina Rossetti and Pre-Raphaelite love. In
his Memories and impressions, 1911.
Sharp, W. Some memories of Christina Rossetti. In his Papers critical
and reminiscent, ed Mrs W. Sharp, 1912. Rptd from Atlantic
Monthly June 1895.
Venkatesan, N. K. Christina Rossetti. Madras 1914.
Mason, E. Two Christian poets, Christina Rossetti and Paul
Verlaine. In his A book of preferences, 1915.
Watts-Dunton, T. In his Old familiar faces, 1916.
de Wilde, J. F. Christina Rossetti: poet and woman. Nijkerk 1923.
de la Mare, W. Christina Rossetti. Trans Royal Soc of Lit 6 1926.
Centenary and later studies
Collections of critical essays
Kent, D. A. (ed). The achievement of Christina Rossetti. Ithaca NY
1987.
Charles, E. K. (ed). Christina Rossetti: critical perspectives. 1988.
Harrison, A. H. (ed). Centennial of Christina Rossetti. Double no of
VP 32, 3–4, Morgantown WV 1994.
Critical studies
McGann, J. J. Christina Rossetti’s poems: a new edition and a revaluation.
VS 1980, rptd in his The beauty of inflections: literary
investigations in historical method and theory, Oxford 1985.
McGann, J. J. The poetry of Christina Rossetti. In The Pre-
Raphaelite poets, ed Harold Bloom, New York 1986 (Modern
Critical Views). A condensed synoptic 2-pt essay rptd from VS
1980, and Cannons, ed R. von Hollberg, Chicago 1983.
Rosenblum, D. Christina Rossetti: the poetry of endurance.
Carbondale IL 1986.
Harrison, A. H. Christina Rossetti in context. 1988.
Mayberry, K. J. Christina Rossetti and the poetry of discovery. 1989.
Biographies
Packer, L. M. Christina Rossetti. Berkeley 1963.
Battiscombe, G. Christina Rossetti: a divided life. 1981.
Jones, K. Learning not to be first: the life of Christina Rossetti. 1991.
Jurlaro, F. Christina Rossetti: the true story. 1991.
Thomas, F. Christina Rossetti. 1992, 1994.
Marsh, J. Christina Rossetti: a literary biography. 1994. [wef]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828–82
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Major mss holdings: Ashmolean, Bodleian and Worcester College libs
(Oxford), BL, Brotherton (Leeds), Durham Univ Lib, Fitzwilliam Museum
(Cambridge), Lady Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight), Manx Museum
(Douglas, Isle of Man), Univ College London, NLS, Victoria and Albert
Museum, Arizona State Univ, Berg Collection (NYPL), Delaware Art Museum
(Wilmington DE), Duke Univ (see Baum and Fisher, below), Harvard,
HRHRC, Huntington, Univ of Kansas, Library of Congress, Pierpont Morgan
Lib, Princeton, Yale, Univ of British Columbia.
Special projects
McGann, Jerome. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A hypermedia research
archive of the complete writings and pictures. To be pbd as an
online work (with some adjunct CD-ROM components) by Univ
of Michigan Press in 4 instalments, the first scheduled to appear
in 1998–9. The archive will contain all of D.G.R.’s critical and creative
writings and pictures in every documentary state (all mss
and all authorised ptd texts as well as all salient scholarly texts,
plus full colour digital facs of the pictures and textual materials);
plus a corpus of essential contemporary materials (W. M.
Rossetti’s pbd work on his brother, as well as the key works of
Marillier, F. G. Stephens, Pater, Swinburne, and others); plus fullscale
original notes and critical commentaries by the editor on all
these materials. The whole is hyperlinked and electronically
organised for full (and indexed) computer search and analysis.
(Note by J. McGann.)
Bibliographies
The fullest bibliography of Rossetti ever attempted is J. B. Gregory’s unpbd
diss, Univ of London 1931.
Anderson, J. P. Appended to J. Knight, Life of Rossetti, 1887.
Rossetti, W. M. Bibliography of the works of Rossetti. 1905. Rptd
from Bibliographer 1–2 1902–3. Addns by W. F. Prideaux,
Bibliographer 2 1903.
Rossetti, W. M. Rossetti: classified lists of his writings with the
dates. 1906 (priv ptd).
Vaughan, C. E. Bibliographies of Swinburne, Morris, Rossetti.
Oxford 1914 (Eng Assoc pam).
Ehrsam, T. G., R. H. Deily and R. M. Smith. In their Bibliographies
of twelve Victorian authors, New York 1936. Suppl by J. G. Fucilla,
MP 37 1939.
Jones, H. M. The Pre-Raphaelites. In Victorian poets, ed F. E. Faverty,
Cambridge MA 1956; ed W. E. Fredeman Cambridge MA 1968 (rev).
Fredeman, W. E. In his Pre-Raphaelitism: a bibliocritical study,
Cambridge MA 1965 (sections 22–34).
Fennell, F. L. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an annotated bibliography.
New York 1982. Secondary material.
Barker, N. and J. Collins. A sequel to An enquiry into the nature of
certain nineteenth century pamphlets. 1983. Updates An enquiry
by J. Carter and G. Pollard 1934.
(Boos, F.) In Dictionary of literary biography vol 35, 1985.
Collections and selections
Collected works. Ed W. M. Rossetti 2 vols 1886, 1887 etc. Vol 1 contains
Poems (essentially the 1881 text) and literary prose, vol 2
trns and miscellaneous prose, including art notices.
Poetical works. Ed W. M. Rossetti 1891 etc. Same as vol 1 of Collected
works, above, without the prose.
Poems of Rossetti, with illustrations from his own pictures and
designs. Ed W. M. Rossetti 2 vols 1904; 1908 (Pocket edn). First
authorised restoration of Nuptial sleep to House of life; several
poems added.
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