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The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Formative Years, 1835-1862: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk. II. 1855-1862 (Hardcover)
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The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Formative Years, 1835-1862: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk. II. 1855-1862 (Hardcover)
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Major edition revealing key ideas and events in the lives and work
of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and Victorian literary circles:
5,800 letters (including 2,000 previously unpublished letters) to
330 recipients. 1855-1862: This nine-volume editionl represents the
definitive collection of extant Rossetti correspondence, an
outstanding primary witness to the range of ideas and opinions that
shaped Rossetti's art and poetry. The largest collection of
Rossetti's letters ever to be published, it features all known
surviving letters, a total of almost 5,800 to over 330 recipients,
and includes 2,000 previously unpublished letters by Rossetti and
selected letters to him.In addition to this, about 100 drawings
taken from within letter texts are also reproduced. In its entirety
the collection will give an invaluable and unparalleled insight
into Rossetti's character and art, and will form a rich resource
for students and scholars studying all aspects of his life and
work. The correspondence has been transcribed from collections in
sixty-four manuscript repositories, containing Rossetti's letters
to his companions inthe Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt and
Stephens; friends such as Boyce and Bell Scott; his early patrons,
Ellen Heaton and James Leathart; and his publisher friend,
Alexander Macmillan. An additional twenty-two printed sources have
also been accessed. Index; extensive annotations. WILLIAM E.
FREDEMAN (1928-1999) was professor of English at the University of
British Columbia from 1956-1991. His many books, articles and
reviews on the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers include his
important Pre-Raphaelitism: A Bibliocritical Study. He died in 1999
with this edition almost completed; LEONARD ROBERTS is an art
historian and author of Arthur Hughes: His Life and Works.
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