"A sonnet is a moment's monument" Omnibus Edition Dashboard
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This group is working on a critical edition of the first sonnet of DGR's The House of Life.
Image: portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: albumen print. This photograph, from 7 October 1863, was reproduced as the frontispiece of: Rossetti, William Michael, Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer (London: Cassell and Company, 1898). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_001.jpg
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Birchington-on-Sea, Kent is a village of about 10,000 people in northeast Kent, England, facing the North Sea. It is both a tourist and retirement destination. Its churchyard is the burial place of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Image: The Kent coast, looking across Westgate Bay towards Epple Bay and Birchington-on-Sea (Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0).
17 Red Lion Square was a significant location for writers and painters associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Dante Gabriel Rossetti lived there briefly in 1851. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones lived there from 1856-59. Almost directly opposite was the Working Men's College (now #31 Red Lion Square) where D. G. Rossetti worked at the time.
45 Upper Albany St. (now 166 Albany St.) was the home of the Rossetti family; the family moved there in December 1850. It is here that Christina Rossetti wrote "Goblin Market."
16 Cheyne Walk was the home of Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 24 October 1862 until his death in 1882. Image of 16 Cheyne Walk from Wikipedia Commons is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You can see the interior in the following painting by Henry Treffry Dunn, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Theodore Watts-Dunton, in which one sees Rossetti reading proofs of Sonnets and...
