Author: Stephanie E. Chatfield

  • William Bell Scott on Lizzie and Rossetti’s Marriage

    William Bell Scott on Lizzie and Rossetti’s Marriage Published in Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott (New York, Harper & Brothers 1892) W. M. R. next asks me if I knew that Gabriel is about to marry or perhaps, is now married to Miss Siddal, whom you have heard about and possibly…

  • William Bell Scott Recalls His First Meeting with Lizzie

    William Bell Scott Recalls his First Meeting with Lizzie, Published in Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott (New York, Harper & Brothers 1892) A year or two after in midsummer, the time when I always visited London, Howitt having returned from Australia, and being with Mary Howitt and Anna Mary, their daughter,…

  • A Note from Ruskin

    Ruskin writing to Lizzie regarding her ill health (this was during the time when he was a patron to her work): “I should like you to go to the country immediately. The physician whom you consult will probably give you some suggestions, but doctors nearly always have some favourite watering-place . . I shall be…