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Lucy Faulkner and the 'ghastly grin': re-working the title page illustration to Goblin Market
No full textAn article that recovers the work of the craftswoman Lucy Faulkner Orrinsmith. It demonstrates her role in the re-cutting of the title page illustration to Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Goblin Market’ designed by D. G. Rossetti in 1862-5
Religious intellectuals : the poetic gravity of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti
No full textThis thesis examines the writing of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti in terms of its
expression of religious culture and belief. It is my argument that Brontë and Rossetti
experienced religion as intellectuals, questioning and exploring doctrine and dogma neither
as sentimental lady Christians nor dismissive, secular critics. I contend that by close
reading their poetry, the genre both women privileged as most appropriate for the
consideration of religious matters, the reader may trace the sermons and theological works
they read. Moreover, their writing, I suggest, evinces their intellectual response to
theological, ecclesiological and ecclesiastical developments that took place in the
nineteenth century. I thus label Brontë and Rossetti 'religious intellectuals,' a phrase
suggestive of their intense understanding of, rather than their mild acquaintance with,
religious debate. Many women writing within the nineteenth century found that religion
granted them a field within which to freely read and research, but were denied the
professional title of 'theologian.' Brontë and Rossetti are thus examples of a wider
phenomenon wherein women encountered religion like scholars, one disregarded by current
criticism unable as it is to categorize a female activity simultaneously religious and
intellectual. I use Brontë and Rossetti as examples of what I call the 'religious intellectual'
because they represent different sides of this classification. Where Brontë struggled away
from her Methodist background, serving as a cultural commentator on its enthusiastic
belief-system, Rossetti forged a scholarly identity as a late member of the High Church
Oxford Movement. Both poets, I contend, wrote about religion in order to signal their
intellectual ability. I conclude that Brontë's interest in Methodism and Rossetti's
fascination with Tractarianism reveals the poets to be both independent of family pressures
and false consciousness, and fully engaged with a subject central to their age
Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to S. J. B. Haydon, Tuesday [1879]
No full text1 leaf (single-sided)Handwritten letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to S. J. B. Haydon, dated Tuesday [1879].
Note in file: S. J. B. Haydon was a sculptor and print seller who etched a plate of the Rossetti Hamlet and Ophelia some time between 1878-81
Letter from Felix Rossetti to Ralph L. Cheney
No full textA four-page letter from Felix Rossetti to Ralph L. Cheney, date unknown. In this letter, Rossetti tells Cheney about his plans for work, including him going to Columbia University in New York to work as a lecturer for two years, and then asks Cheney if he would be willing to give Rossetti a letter of recommendation as a public speaker.Ralph L. Cheney served as the head of Springfield College’s Secretarial Department from 1907 to 1924. Before taking this position, he worked as a YMCA secretary in Albany and Niagara Falls, New York.
Felix Rossetti received a B.H from Springfield College in 1916. As a student, he played on the soccer team, belonged to the British Club and Philomathean Literary Society and International Literary Society, in addition to extensive work with the YMCA. In August 1916, Rossetti was able to return to his home country when he was sent to Bombay by the National Council to observe the work of British soldiers fighting in the Mesopotamian Campaign. By January 1917, he was working in Bombay area hospitals and a convalescent camp. Rosetti held various YMCA positions including Secretary of International Communication in India and later as secretary, performing settlement work in Calcutta. Rossetti died in 1970
Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to S. J. B. Haydon, Tuesday [1879]
No full text1 leaf (single-sided)Handwritten letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to S. J. B. Haydon, dated Tuesday [1879].
Note in file: S. J. B. Haydon was a sculptor and print seller who etched a plate of the Rossetti Hamlet and Ophelia some time between 1878-81
Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John B. Schott, September 24, 1881
No full text1 leaf (single-sided)Handwritten letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John B. Schott, dated September 24, 1881 (Fredeman 81.416)
Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John B. Schott, Tuesday September 27, 1881
No full text1 leaf (double-sided)Handwritten letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John B. Schott, dated Tuesday September 27, 1881
Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to S. J. B. Hayden, Thursday [c. 1879]
No full text1 leaf (double-sided)Handwritten letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to S. J. B. Haydon, dated Thursday [c. 1879]
Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John B. Schott, Thursday [c. 1877]
No full text1 leaf (single-sided)Handwritten letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John B. Schott, dated Thursday [c. 1877] (Baum 87)
Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John B. Schott, Tuesday September 27, 1881
No full text1 leaf (double-sided)Handwritten letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John B. Schott, dated Tuesday September 27, 1881
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