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John Grey, Butler's father, portrait by George Patten. Josephine Grey was born on 13 April 1828 at Milfield, Northumberland.She was the fourth daughter and seventh child of Hannah (née Annett) and John Grey, a land agent and agricultural expert, [2] [3] [a] who was a cousin of the reformist British Prime Minister, Lord Grey. [5]
Christina Rossetti was born in 38 Charlotte Street (now 110 Hallam Street), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy, since 1824, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician John William Polidori. [1]
Illustration for the cover of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Goblin Market (composed in April 1859 and published in 1862) is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti.
Christina's brother, founding Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood member Dante Gabriel Rossetti, designed the frontispiece and title page illustrations in the first edition, as well as the minimal blue binding. Christina was aware that her brother's "commercial savvy and artistic skill" helped make her first volume of poetry a success. [2]
In 1854, with Thomas Woolner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Lowes Cato Dickinson and John Ruskin, Munro began teaching at the newly established Working Men's College. Munro's sculptures were noted for their formal simplicity. His most famous work was Paolo and Francesca, which was exhibited at the 1851 exhibition ...
The Prince's Progress and Other Poems is Christina Rossetti's second volume of poetry, published by Macmillan in 1866. Christina's brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti designed the illustrations and bindings for the publication, just as he had for her first volume, Goblin Market and Other Poems .
The magazine was edited by William Michael Rossetti. [2] The Germ was renamed Art and Poetry, being Thoughts towards Nature, conducted principally by Artists for its last two issues. It was not a success, only surviving for four issues between January and April 1850. [3] Illustrations were provided by members of the brotherhood.
Christina Rossetti, portrait by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti "In the Bleak Midwinter" is a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti.It was published under the title "A Christmas Carol" in the January 1872 issue of Scribner's Monthly, [1] [2] and first collected in book form in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1875).