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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.
- Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, 27 April 1800, London, England
- John William Polidori (brother)
- British
- Gabriele Rossetti
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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
- Publication
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...
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.
21 de set. de 2023 · This chapter seeks to establish the significance of the relationship between gothic literature and travel writing, through Polidori’s early vampire narrative, The Vampyre. Written during a journey across Europe and featuring one also, this narrative indicates the importance of place and of travel to the genre of vampire literature.
29 de out. de 2021 · Sparking the Gothic imagination: Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and Polidori's 'The Vampyre' | Art UK. Stories. Sparking the Gothic imagination: Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and Polidori's 'The Vampyre'. Posted 29 Oct 2021, by Andrew Shore. In April 1815 Mount Tambora, a volcano in what is now Indonesia, erupted.
