Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition [of Wordsworth's poetry] ... prefaced by an essay from William Michael Rossetti. When the Wordsworths saw it ... they were outraged. Not only had Rossetti made some factual errors, he had presented the poet in an unflattering light ..."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The
Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, to which he added a "compendious Memoir of
her uneventful and rather secluded life."' See Additional Comments.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was soon "reading analysing, collecting, sifting and classifying Evidence" and "grappling as I never did before with the problem of Evolution". He read a statement of the Christian answer to Darwinism but contemptuously wrote "Shallow!" against its discussion of art. His conclusion was probably summed up in a comment he had marked in Keats's letters, "Nothing in this world is proveable"; when he met these words again in W.M. Rossetti's life of Keats, he added, "at least [italics] proved [end italics] W.O.".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen Print: Book
'Reading W.M. Rossetti's biography [of Keats] in 1912, he was overcome by its account of Keats's death: "Rossetti guided my groping hand right into the wound, and I touched, for one moment, the incandescent Heart of Keats".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen Print: Book
The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 24
November 1882:
'I have lately been much interested in reading Rossetti's Life of Shelley [transcribes final
passage, opening "my task here terminates"]'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sidney Biddell Print: Book
