This page looks at the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, specifically his poem Jenny. Rossetti was an extremely influencial English poet and artist who was a founder of the Pre Raphaelite movement. Artist and literary creators who identified with the Pre-Raphaelite genre aimed to break free from the idealistic and “rigid” structure of traditional Victorian art.
Annotation of the poem Jenny by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This work draws on annotations from Broadview Press and definitions from other reputatable sources such as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Oscar Wilde's "The Fisherman and His Soul" was published in his collection The House of Pomegranates (1891). You can read the story, annotated by General Education students at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, here at COVE Studio.
This is a resource-in-process that assists in a biographical project of recovery, documentation, and analysis, attending to the personal and professional lives of Ethel Kate Dickens (1864-1936).
Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood: A Romance (1845-7) is one of the longest-running and most successful Victorian penny fiction serials, popularly termed "penny bloods." Written primarily by James Malcolm Rymer, the creator of penny fiction villain Sweeney Todd, as one of the top writers at Edward Lloyd's Salisbury Square penny fiction factory, Varney is an innovative, wide-ranging contribution to nineteenth-century British vampire lore.
