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Helen Van Vechten (1868–1949) was an American printer who became known for the hand-printed fine press books she produced for the Philosopher Press in Wisconsin around the turn of the 20th century. In her day, she was one of very few women involved in fine book-making in America and was regarded as a top expert in the field.
Illustration for the cover of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti Goblin Market is an 1862 narrative poem by Christina Rossetti . It tells the story of sisters Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted with fruit by goblin merchants. [ 1 ]
Christina's brother, founding Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood member Dante Gabriel Rossetti, designed the frontispiece and title page illustrations in the first edition, as well as the minimal blue binding. Christina was aware that her brother's "commercial savvy and artistic skill" helped make her first volume of poetry a success.
Self-portrait, 1847 Original manuscript of Autumn Song by Rossetti, 1848, Ashley Library Portrait of Frances Gabriele Rossetti the Artist's Mother (1877). The son of émigré Italian scholar Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti and his wife Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti was born in London, on 12 May 1828.
Jenny Slate’s new book is almost here, and it’s a meditation on motherhood like you’ve never read one before. Lifeform, out Tuesday, Oct. 22 from Little, Brown and Company, is a collection ...
Jenny Morris was born 17 January 1861 at Red House, Bexleyheath. The elder child of the designer, craftsman, and writer William Morris and Jane Morris (née Burden), her younger sister May Morris was born a year later. Jenny Morris by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1871. Jenny and her sister May were schooled at home, briefly attending Notting Hill ...
Jenny Han still remembers the moment she learned she got her first book deal — and what she was doing at the time. The author of The Summer I Turned Pretty author spoke with Jenna Bush Hager on ...
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