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Frances Polidori. Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori; 27 April 1800 – 8 April 1886) was a British educator who was the daughter, wife, sister and mother of important writers and artists. She was also a model of the paintings of her son Dante.
Background. Frances was the daughter of Anna Maria Pierce and Italian exile Gaetano Polidori and sister of John Polidori, author of The Vampyre and Lord Byron"s physician. Career. After Gabriele died she quickly burned the remaining copies of his book Il Mistero dell" Amor Platonico del Medio Evo.
- The Rossetti Family
- The Polidoris
- Country Holidays
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The Rossetti parents were both academic and educated. Gabriele Rossetti was an Italian poet and political exile from Vasto, near Naples, where he is commemorated in a statue. After fleeing the Kingdom of Naples with a price on his head, he emigrated to England in 1824, and established a career as a Dante scholar and teacher of Italian in London. He...
Frances’ English mother, Anna Maria Polidari, née Pierce, had also been educated by her academic parents and had worked as a governess. Suffering from ill-health and often bedridden, she moved permanently to the family farmhouse in Homer Green, then a quiet and isolated community. She was a strict High Anglican, raising her daughters in her faith w...
Gabriele recorded his youngest daughter playing at Holmer Green “with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes, taking tentative steps in the garden ‘like a butterfly’ among the flowers and current bushes”. Late in life, Christina Rossetti, wrote to the journalist Edmund Gosse that her literary inspiration had started during her happy childhood in Holmer Gre...
Christina’s poems were first published commercially in the literary magazine the Atheneum in 1848 and The Germ, the magazine founded by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, in 1850. However, Gaetano Polidori printed a collection of her poems Verses in 1847, when Christina was just 16. Printed on Polidori’s private printing press, this collection was dis...
This article presents a detailed new analysis of the conception, composition, publication, and immediate reception of John William Polidori’s influential story, ‘The Vampyre’ (1819), first attributed to Lord Byron. Polidori was instrumental in publishing the tale – and did so with a certain guile as part of a larger literary strategy.
21 de jul. de 2023 · An enclosed letter to Polidori’s sister Frances from May 1816 shows his excitement with the engagement, boasting that he is “with [Lord Byron] on the footing of an equal, everything alike: at present here we have a suite of rooms between us. I have my sitting-room at one end, he at the other.”
17 de abr. de 2023 · He married the half-English, half-Italian Frances Polidori in 1826 and four children followed in quick succession: Maria in 1827, then Gabriel, 1828 (famous as Dante Gabriel but always called Gabriel), William, 1829, and Christina, 1830.
29 de feb. de 2024 · Frances Polidori (Q2278571) From Wikidata. Jump to navigation Jump to search. wife of Gabriele Rossetti (1800-1886) Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori; Frances ...
