Portrait of Rossetti

Résumé du livre

One of the most unconventional and controversial figures among the great Victorians, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter, was a complex personal­ity who has long awaited reassessment by a sympa­thetic biographer. Rosalie Glynn Grylls (Lady Mander) has con­firmed here again the reputation as a talented biog­rapher achieved by her Mary Shelley, still—after more than twenty years—the standard work on its subject.

This new biography of Rossetti embodies the im­portant letters between Rossetti and Mrs. Morris from the British Museum until now unavailable and much other hitherto unpublished material discov­ered in England and America in the course of Lady Mander’s research for this book. Included are sev­eral hitherto unknown illustrations of considerable interest.