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oddthisday.bsky.social
And what’s more, without even leaving the animal kingdom, we have another anniversary today: that of the tragic demise of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
oddthisday.bsky.social Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Nov 6
It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pen and ink drawing of himself mourning his wombat, showing a man kneeling over the corpse of a rotund wombat, its toes turned up. They are in front of tomb bearing the date 6th November 1869, and a palm tree
November 6, 2026 at 9:38 AM
oispooky.bsky.social
Slavin was also a pub landlord and a gold miner for good measure.

For a while he ran The Rose which was at 96 Jermyn Street, London. In a different decade, the same pub was managed by artists' model Fanny Cornforth, Rossetti's muse, whose given name was Sarah Cox. I enjoy this little fact!
November 8, 2026 at 8:09 AM
victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social
Tuesday #morningread
Christina Rossetti’s ‘Autumn Violets’
November 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM
preraphsrule.bsky.social
'Suede sometimes uses the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti's classic poem, "Song" [When I am dead, my dearest]"...as a beautiful spoken-word intro at their live shows'.

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Suede - When I'm dead (Intro)
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November 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
jet3270.bsky.social
I'm lucky to have crafty friends to hang out with who happen to have a small extractor fan, which really helped with finishing the background of my Mari Postcard! Pyrography Proserpine Mari will soon be available to buy at auction!
A photograph of a desk, with a pyrography machine, a small extractor fan resting on a desk lamp, over a pyrography drawing, with other parts strewn over the desk. A version of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting Proserpine with a horse skull head, done with pyrography on watercolour paper.
November 9, 2026 at 12:34 PM
laurelsbooks.bsky.social
Halloween’s a night to reread old favorites:

- Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin
- Diana Wynne Jones’s Fire & Hemlock
- Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market
- John Keats’s The Eve of St. Agnes
- AJ Hall’s The Curious Case of the Knight in the Library.

Lifting a glass to writers of wild, joyful imagination 🥂🎆🎇🔥
October 31, 2026 at 10:40 PM
kafkaesque2024.bsky.social
I hope you'll share that as well one day.

Right now, I'm happily bemused by the artistic style of the interior, because it's definitely of the era (and influence) of Rossetti's Pre-Raphaelites, but it also has a much older, rather Eastern Orthodox Church look to its iconography. Just gorgeous!
November 2, 2026 at 7:35 AM
midoridoridori.bsky.social
Thanks to a friend I've been reminded of the existence of Rossetti's Goblin Market and now I wanna write a kaeluc fic.......
October 30, 2026 at 8:55 AM
porschespider.bsky.social
Today has been lovely.
Brunch, brilliant Pre-Raphaelite exhibition at the Laing, a bit of Christmas shopping for the boys, tea and cake, and then home to collect the boys for tea. They were brilliant for Phil's parents. And Traitors tonight with eldest, after littlest has a story before bed. Perfect
Poster with Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Beata Beatrice and the title 'Pre-Raphaelites Art and Poetry'.
October 29, 2026 at 6:54 PM
titanbooks.bsky.social
GOBLIN MARKET by A. J. Hackwith is officially out now! ✨💚🧚

A twisty and colourful retelling of Christina Rossetti's poem that sees changeling Toast navigate the dangerous den of faerie dealers to save her human sister for being framed for murder...

🍄 tinyurl.com/er699x9p
October 27, 2026 at 12:02 PM
ghostlytales.bsky.social
A lovely 1950s collection combining two of Christina Rossetti's volumes of poetry. She really was a quite remarkable poet.
#ChristinaRossetti #Booksky #Poetry #Victorianpoetry #Pre-Raphaelite #GoblinMarket
October 24, 2026 at 4:06 AM
archives-unisurrey.bsky.social
Goblins come in all shapes and sizes - including furry! This engraving of Laura being tempted to buy fruit from the Goblin Market is by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who made the work for his sister Christina Rossetti's famous poem.

#eyafolklore #goblins #poems #christinarossetti
Black and white engraving showing a fair-haired woman in the act of cutting a lock of her hair, as large anthropomorphic creatures, includng a wombat and and owl, offer her a selection of delicious-looking fruits. Another woman is shown in the background, carrying a jug and moving away while looking over her shoulder. The words 'Buy from us with a golden curl' are written in script underneath, with the artist's name.
October 22, 2026 at 1:44 PM
themermaidhotline.bsky.social
A celebration of Venus through various artworks, including Rossetti's Venus Verticordia poem in the description box.

Enjoy!

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Famous Depictions of Aphrodite | Venus, Born of The Sea
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October 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM
melodic.stream
In Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel,” the lover corrects a felt presence: “Nothing: the autumn-fall of leaves.” The poem ends “(I heard her tears.)” No correction follows. I find that last parenthesis unsettling.
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October 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
parallax2112.bsky.social
Re-reading Christina Rossetti's poetry and it's a bit Christian creepy. Reminds me of a former friend, who once told me that she was once thinking of becoming a nun.
October 15, 2026 at 7:09 PM
nemoloris.bsky.social
'Whistler told of [Dante Gabriel Rossetti's pet wombat] being brought to table with brandy and cigars as Swinburne read from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855).'
October 15, 2026 at 3:40 PM
firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social
Pia de' Tolomei by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, c. 1868, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)

#ArtHistory #Romanticism
This work was painted at the start of Rossetti's affair with Jane Morris, who modelled for the picture. As he was to do with Beata Beatrix (1870), Rossetti chose a tale by Dante Aligheri (from Purgatorio) to illustrate his love for his model. The story tells of a woman whose husband imprisoned and later poisoned her: Rossetti wanted the world to believe the fantasy with which he was deluding himself - that William Morris kept Jane against her will. He continued this theme, as shown in Proserpine.
October 15, 2026 at 11:56 PM
drossetti.bsky.social
Beata Beatrix https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16551/
Both a poet and a painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a circle of Victorian artists who were united in their regard for medieval aesthetics. Named after the thirteenth-century poet Dante Alighieri, Rossetti found inspiration for Beata Beatrix in his namesake’s La vita nuova (The New Life; 1295). Rossetti’s scene draws a parallel between Dante’s love for the late Beatrice and his own affection for his recently deceased wife and muse, Elizabeth Siddal. While this picture is a tribute to Siddal, Rossetti was adamant that it does not represent her death. Rather, the work portrays her as if in a trance or altered spiritual state. Rossetti’s symbolism combines details from his personal life with those from La Vita Nuova. “The Dove” was the artist’s nickname for Siddal, and a haloed dove delivers her a white poppy, a symbol of laudanum—a derivative of opium—which caused her death by overdose. Above rises the Ponte Vecchio, the Florentine bridge that served as the setting of Dante’s poem. To the upper left is the personification of Love and to the right the figure of Dante, who doubles as a representation of Rossetti himself. The sundial shadows the number nine, the age Dante first saw Beatrice as well as the hour and day of her death. Rossetti designed the frame, and at the top right he inscribed, “How doth the city sit solitary.” This quote from La Vita Nuova refers to the city of Florence’s mourning of Beatrice. Given the deeply personal nature of the work, Rossetti initially refused his patron William Graham’s request to create a replica, although he eventually yielded. The Art Institute’s painting is this second version, which is the only one to have a predella—the painted scene at the bottom of the frame—depicting Beatrice and Dante’s reunion in paradise. With this addition, Rossetti provides the medieval love story with a happy conclusion, perhaps suggesting that he, too, had begun to come to terms with his own profound grief. Charles L. Hutchinson Collection
October 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
kanadakev.com
#OTD in 2011 I went to see an Italian Genesis tribute act. Amazing similarity between lead singer Simone Rossetti’s vocals and those of a younger Peter Gabriel

🎥Supper's Ready from 2026 🔥

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October 15, 2026 at 1:20 PM
titanbooks.bsky.social
We are one week away from the release of GOBLIN MARKET by A. J. Hackwith! ✨💚🧚

A colourful retelling of Christina Rossetti's poem that sees changeling Toast navigate the dangerous den of faerie dealers to save her human sister for being framed for murder...

🍄 https://tinyurl.com/er699x9p
October 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
dimajor.bsky.social
I’m going with no, not with her looking very like Rossetti’s Joan of Arc…
Joan of Arc, in profile, ready for battle with her sword held high, her armour under her shawl and her auburn hair loose. Painted by Rossetti, with the words “Jehane la Pucelle” written top left and “1882” and the artist’s signature top bp right
October 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
troycap.bsky.social
Lovely Pre-Raphaelite image: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s "Dante’s Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice" — a haunting, symbol-rich scene with luminous color, delicate figures, and emblematic roses. See the artwork: buff.ly/xKPH8Fg #PreRaphaelites #ArtHistory
October 9, 2026 at 4:15 AM
pgwodelouse.bsky.social
Used to adore Brian Sewell’s reviews in the Standard, not least the one on Lloyd Webber’s Pre-Raphaelite collection* in the early-2000s where he bemoaned Rossetti’s obsession with plump lips and what Sewell took to be their association with FELLATIO

*which was good but slightly grannyish
October 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
dumb-belles.bsky.social
Selfie, or Women Who Eat Food Like Why Wouldn't You. DG Rossetti's Proserpine, except utterly different face, skin, age, colouring, much fatter (no, fatter than that even), and instead of a pomegranate in her hand, it's cake in her hair. Otherwise, twinsies. What do you mean, 'winter is coming'?
Crop of 🖼️ DG Rossetti, Proserpine. A woman with long hair holds a partially eaten fruit in one hand while her other hand holds the wrist of the hand holding the fruit.
October 8, 2026 at 6:03 AM
betheena.bsky.social
“And often into the window of my room Fly the winds of a northern sea, A dove eats wheat from my hands… And the Muse’s sunburnt hand Divinely light and calm Finishes the unfinished page.”
— Anna Akhmatova, from Loneliness [trans. by D. M. Thomas]
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Jane Burden, Rossetti's muse /John R. Parsons, ph.
October 7, 2026 at 11:05 AM