03222cam a22004093u 4500 78022 UtSlPG 20260610134816.0 m cr n 260607r20261900utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 01019030 UtSlPG en iso639-1 ND Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919 Præraphaelite diaries and letters Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2026-02-23 Mairi, Dori Allard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Præraphaelite diaries and letters" by Brown, Rossetti, and Rossetti is a collection of diaries and correspondence written in the late 19th century. It gathers primary documents—letters, journals, and working notes—from leading figures of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, illuminating their methods, friendships, travels, and the inner mechanics of the movement. Editorial headnotes provide context while preserving the immediacy of the original voices. The opening of the collection sets out the editor’s aim and the book’s three parts: early correspondence (mostly from a young poet-painter), letters and a diary by a senior artist, and a Brotherhood journal. It then counters the cliché of the “pallid aesthete” by sketching a brisk, humorous, practical character and listing key associates. Early letters range from childhood notes about family gifts, fairs, and Shakespeare, to a sharp-eyed comparison of an Italian lyric with Sir Henry Wotton, a teenage poem submission, and a vivid travel letter from Flanders praising Memling and Van Eyck amid playful asides. Brief, lively notes chart studio scrapes, moves, large pictures taking shape, PRB gatherings, would-be patrons, and the emergence—and ill health—of a gifted pupil. A father’s tender, sober counsel punctuates the sequence. The next section shifts to a painter’s letters home about exhibitions, fresco and cartoon work, and studio life, before his diary begins with the conception of a grand Chaucer canvas and day-by-day entries on grief, discipline, fabrics and lay-figures, museum research, and art-society wrangles—an unvarnished record of work at its start. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: London: Hurst and Blackett, 1900 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Pre-Raphaelitism -- Great Britain Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893 Pre-Raphaelites -- Great Britain -- Diaries Pre-Raphaelites -- Great Britain -- Correspondence Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Rossetti, Gabriele, 1783-1854 https://archive.org/details/cu31924014891711/page/n9/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78022 118742 118742