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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Male : Poet & Artist. Brother of Christina. Married Elizabeth Siddal in 1860 (died 1862). A founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1824 Date of Death : 1882 Age : 58

Education : King's College, London & RA Schools
1843-1880
Sir Hugh the Heron : A Legendary Tale in Four Parts
(1843)
(Trans) The Early Italian Poets, 1100-1300 (1861 Smith Elder)
Offered in 1998 for £400
Hand and Soul
(1869)
Poems
(1870 F S Ellis, London)
Large Paper Edition
(25) offered in 1999 for £750
(1870 Roberts, Boston) (1873 Tauchnitz) (1881 Ellis & White - New Ed)

1881-1890
Ballads and Sonnets
(1881 Ellis & White, London) + 25 or 30 large paper (1881 Roberts)
Dante and His Circle
(1874 Ellis & White) - revised edition of "The Early Italian Poets"
The Blessed Damozel
(1886 Dodd Mead, NY) - Kenyon Cox
The Collected Works
(1886 Ellis & Scruton, London) - 2 vols
Complete Poems
(1887 Roberts)
The Collected Works
(1890 Ellis & Elvey, London) - 2 vols

1891-1900
Dante & His Circle
(1892 Ellis & Elvery) - New preface by W M Rossetti
Letters to William Allingham 1854-1870
(1897 T Fisher Unwin) (1897 Stokes, NY)
The Blessed Damozel
(1898 Duckworth) - W B MacDougall
Complete Poetical Works
(1898 Boston)
Some Scraps and Prose and Verse
(1898) - Edited by William Rossetti
Hand and Soul
(1899 Vale Press, London) - 220
(Trans) Lenore : A Ballad by G A Burger (1900) - Edited by William Rossetti

1901-1920
Poems
(1904 Ellis & Elvey) - 2 vols
(Trans) Henry the Leper by Hartmann von Aue (1905) - 2 vols
The House of Life : A Sonnet Sequence
(1907 Ellis)
Works
(1911) - Edited by William Rossetti
The Ballad of Jan Van Hunks
(1912) (1929 Harrap. 2nd Ed) - 620 - Edited by T Watts-Dunton

1921 Onwards
The House of Life : A Sonnet Sequence
(1928) - Edited by P F Baum
Letters of D G Rossetti to His Publisher, F S Ellis
(1928 Scholartis Press, London) - 560
Rossetti : An Analytical List of Manuscripts in the Duke University Library
with Hitherto Unpublished Verse and Prose
(1931) - Edited by P F Baum
The Blessed Damozel
(1937) - Edited by P F Baum
Sister Helen
(1939) - Edited by Janet Troxell
Hand and Soul
(1944 Leonard Jay, Birmingham) - 65
The Kelmscott Love Sonnets
(1954) - Edited by J R Wahl
Poems
(1957) - Edited by Oswald Doughty
Letters
(1965-7) - 4 vols. Edited by Oswald Doughty & J R Wahl
The Rossetti-Leyland Letters : The Correspondence of an Artist and His Patron
(1976) - Edited by Francis L Fennell Jr
Rossetti-Janey Morris Letters
(1976) - Edited by John Bryson

Pictures
"Girl at a Lattice"
(Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
"Venus Verticordia"
(Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth)

READING
1882-1900
William Sharp : Dante Gabriel Rossetti - A Record and a Study
(1882 Macmillan)
T Hall Caine : Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rosetti
(1882 Elliot Stock, London)
Joseph Knight : Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1887 Walter Scott, London)
Frederick G Stephens : Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1894 Seeley)
Esther Wood : Dante Rossetti & the Pre-Raphaelite Movement
(1894 Sampson Low)

1901-1920
Elizabeth Lucy Cary : The Rossettis - Dante Gabriel & Christina
(1901 Knickerbocker Press, NY)
H C Marillier : Dante Gabriel Rossetti - An Illustrated Memorial
(1901 London. 2nd Ed)
Helen Maria Madox Rossetti : The Life & Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1902 The Art Journal)
F M H Ford : Rossetti - A Critical Essay on His Art
(nd. 1902 London)
Henry T Dunn : Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti & His Circle
(1904 Elkin Mathews)
W M Rossetti : Bibliography of the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1905 Ellis, London) - 250

1921-1970
Evelyn Waugh : Rossetti - His Life and Works
(1928)
R L Megroz : Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Painter Poet of Heaven & Earth
(1929 NY)
R D Waller : The Rossetti Family 1824-1854
(1932 Manchester UP)
Helen Rossetti Angeli : Dante Gabriel Rossetti - His Friends & Enemies
(1949 Hamish Hamilton)
Oswald Doughty : A Victorian Romantic
(1949)
Gale Pedrick : Life with Rossetti
(1964)
W E Fredeman : Pre-Raphaelitism - A Bibliocritical Study
(1965 Cambs, Mass)
Gordon H Fleming : Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(1967)
Robert D Johnston : Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1969)

After 1971
Virginia Surtees : Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1824-1882 - The Paintings & Drawings
(1971 Clarendon Press) - 2 vols
J Nicoll : Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1975 Studio Vista)
Stanley Weintraub : The Four Rossettis - A Victorian Biography
(1977) (1978 London)
Brian and Judy Dobbs : Dante Gabriel Rossetti - An Alien Victorian
(1977)

See also

Burlington Fine Arts Club
Kelmscott Press, The
Christina Georgina Rossetti