Description: 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 It draws on many unpublished sources, including letters and diaries.
Review Quotes:
'Drawing on a rich array of first-hand contemporary records, this detailed chronology of the Rossetti family and its circle will be an impressive and useful contribution to Rossetti studies and, more broadly, literary and art history of the nineteenth century.' - Professor Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa, Canada
'...extremely readable and accessible, and understanding of the family or of their literary and artistic circles would be greatly enhanced by thus doing...The editors are to be commended for their superb use of the resources available to them. The whole is immensely rich and varied, whether for the academic, the scholar, the student or the general reader.' - Lottie Alexander, Reference Reviews