This COVE edition of Christina Rossetti’s “In an Artist’s Studio" will attempt what Dino Franco Felluga, the lead editor, is calling—inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “The Sonnet"—a “momentous edition.” The original annotations were assembled during an otherwise ephemeral close-reading session: at the NAVSA/AVSA NYU/Purdue conference at La Pietra in Florence, Italy (May 2017). The collective annotation project was then augmented over the year following the conference.
One of London’s most notorious slums by the end of the nineteenth century, Old Nichol Slum was located in the east end, between High Street, Shoreditch, and Hackney Road in the north, and Spitalfields in the south.
Demolished around 1901, Wych Street stretched westward from the church of St. Clement Danes on the Strand and intersected with the southern end of Drury Lane at the Olympic Theatre, just north of the Strand.
Located between Parliament Street and Buckingham Palace, St. James’s Park is part of a network of large parks that spread westward into Green Park, Hyde Parke, and Kensington Gardens. St.
Church Lane, which ran between High Street and New Oxford Street in Holborn, was a notorious slum in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1877, John Thomson wrote in his Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photos that most houses on either side of Church Lane had been cleared.
Located at the south end of Hyde Park, and now often called the Hyde Park Barracks, the Knightsbridge Barracks were constructed at the end of the eighteenth century, at a time when the government was concerned with growing civil unrest and no longer wished to have soldiers billeting with c
This region in India is located in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Originally established as part of the Mughal empire, its original capital was Faizabad, though the capital was later moved to Lucknow.
Located on the banks of the Pahjur River, Jhansi is a city in Uttar Pradesh. From 1817 to 1854, Jhansi was the capital of the princely state of Jhansi, controlled by Maratha rajas, when it was then annexed by the British government.
Located in the region of Awadh, Lucknow is a multicultural city in India and is currently the capital of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is an important center of government, education, and commerce. Hindi is the primary language, and Urdu is widely spoken. Until 1719, Awadh was part of the Mughal Empire.
Holles Street is a street in Marylebone, central London that runs from the south side of Cavendish Square to Oxford Street. The street was laid out around 1729 and named after John Holles, first Duke of Newcastle, who purchased the Manor of Marylebone in 1710.