On 29th January 1793 [her father] Gaetano Fedele Polidori [aged 30] and [her mother] Anna Maria Pierce of Middlesex [aged 19] were married.
On 27th April 1800 Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori was born to Gaetano Fedele Polidori [aged 37] and Anna Maria Pierce of Middlesex [aged 26] in London.
In 1826 Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti [aged 42] and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 25] were married.
On 17th February 1827 [her daughter] Maria Francesca Rossetti was born to [her husband] Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti [aged 43] and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 26],
On 12th May 1828 [her son] Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born to [her husband] Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti [aged 45] and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 28]. He married 23rd May 1860 Elizabeth Siddal and had issue.
On 25th September 1829 [her son] William Michael Rossetti was born to [her husband] Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti [aged 46] and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 29]. He married 31st March 1874 Emma Lucy Madox Brown, daughter of Ford Madox Brown and Elizabeth Bromley, and had issue.
On 5th December 1830 [her daughter] Christina Georgina Rossetti was born to [her husband] Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti [aged 47] and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 30].
Between 1848 and 1849. [her son] Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 19]. "The Girlhood of Mary". Model for St Anne Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 47], model for Mary Christina Georgina Rossetti [aged 17]. Note the initials PRB bottom left under his name. First exhibited at the Free Exhibition at the Hyde Park Corner Gallery. It was bought for £80 by Harriet Baring Marchioness Bath [aged 43] who subsequently gifted it to her daughter Louisa Isabella Harriet Thynne [aged 14].
Harriet Baring Marchioness Bath: On 3rd May 1804 she was born to Alexander Baring 1st Baron Ashburton and Ann Louisa Bingham Baroness Ashburton. On 19th April 1830 Henry Frederick Thynne 3rd Marquess of Bath and she were married. He the son of Thomas Thynne 2nd Marquess of Bath and Isabella Elizabeth Byng Marchioness Bath. On 2nd January 1892 Harriet Baring Marchioness Bath died.
Louisa Isabella Harriet Thynne: In 1834 she was born to Henry Frederick Thynne 3rd Marquess of Bath and Harriet Baring Marchioness Bath. On 29th April 1862 General Percy Feilding and she were married. She the daughter of Henry Frederick Thynne 3rd Marquess of Bath and Harriet Baring Marchioness Bath. He the son of William Feilding 6th Earl Desmond 7th Earl Denbigh and Mary Elizabeth Kitty Moreton Countess Desmond and Denbigh. On 26th June 1919 Louisa Isabella Harriet Thynne died.
In 1853 [her father] Gaetano Fedele Polidori [aged 90] died.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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On 26th April 1854 [her husband] Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti [aged 71] died. He was buried in the Rossetti Family Grave at Highgate Cemetery.
On 23rd May 1860 [her son] Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 32] and [her daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Siddal [aged 30] were married at St Clement's Church, Hastings.
Letters of Christina Rossetti. 56 Euston Square, N.W.
Friday afternoon, 14th. [May 1869]1
My dear Miss Boyd [aged 44]
Thank you warmly for so exceedingly kind an invitation, concerning which I will only put forward one regret, that Mrs Epps [Note. Not clear who Mrs Epps is since Laura Theresa Epps [aged 17] didn't marry Lawrence Alma-Tadema [aged 33] until 1871] should lose what might so have refreshed her both in mind and in body. And indeed, if I may, I will say that should it after all turn out that she could visit lovely Penkill you will without hesitation let me know your altered plans to which I shall most readily conform mine. On the other hand if I go, it will be a special indulgence to travel with the Scotts [Note. William Bell Scott [aged 58] and Letitia Margery Norquoy] and as you give me so generous a latitude I will even feel housed at the Castle until a companion offers with whom to start south again;-the journey being somewhat formidably lengthy. But this, of course, only in case it brings my visit within not altogether unreasonable dimensions. How very kind you are to me, and how much I should like to make my gratitude obvious to you. Knowing what a Dear Mrs Scott is, I think she will kindly let me know her plans in due course: meanwhile I expect to run down to Gloucester next week on a little visit to my Uncle if he will have me, but to be up again in time for Penkill.
My love, please, to Mrs Scott, and a kindred sentiment to Mr Scott. We saw [her son] Gabriel [aged 41] last night, but I know nothing at all about his summer plans.2
My Mother [aged 69] desires her most cordial remembrances to you, and adds her thanks to mine on my behalf.
Always and affectionately yours
[her daughter] Christina G. Rossetti [aged 38].
I expect you will find me quite a different order of being this year as regards walking, and I mean to trim up my old hat for possible croquet.
Note 1. Endorsed: "1867." CGR returned to Penkill in 1869, from 9 June to 22 July, not in 1867.
Note 2. DGR was at Penkill from mid-August to 20 September.
On 31st March 1874 [her son] William Michael Rossetti [aged 44] and [her daughter-in-law] Emma Lucy Madox Brown [aged 30] were married. She the daughter of Ford Madox Brown [aged 52] and Elizabeth Bromley.
Letters of Christina Rossetti. Thursday 26th [1876].
My dear Alice [aged 51]
William informs us that you are still kindly keeping open to us the road to Penkill; & therefore my Mother [aged 75] desires me to write & tell you with our warmest thanks that we do not feel equal to so ambitious a pleasure, truly as we feel your welcome. Dear Penkill must remain our "Yarrow unvisited";1 for age gains upon us, & infirmities do not quit hold.
Please thank Mr Scott [aged 65] for me for "Deirdre"2 safely received, with a friendly card.
With much love to Mrs Scott
Always you affectionate
[her daughter] Christina G. Rossetti [aged 45]
Note 1. See letter no. 1811, n. 2. CGR had visited Penkill twice, in 1866 and 1869, but never returned.
Note 2. Roberts Brothers published Deirdre, by Robert Buyer Joyce, in 1876.
Letters of Christina Rossetti. [Late November 1876]
My dear Alice [aged 51]
You will not, will you? grudge me the pleasure of answering your note of loving remembrance. Every word of sympathy & of affectionate remembrance of our dear [her daughter] Maria [aged 49] goes to my Mother's [aged 76] & my heart; & such words have poured in upon us, & have assured us that a widening circle has felt the thrill of our loss.
I am so glad you are seeing & hearing from [her son] Gabriel [aged 48] again:1 every dear person gone out of sight brings out the preciousness of those who remain.
My Mother sends you her love, & I send you mine. And recollecting old Penkill2 delights & all your kindness to me always, I claim the right to sign myself both
Your grateful & affectionate
Christina G. Rossetti [aged 45].
Note 1. After his collapse and attempted suicide in 1872 DGR became increasingly paranoid, suspicious even of many old friends, including the W. B. Scotts and Alice Boyd.
Note 2. DGR paid long visits to AB's home in Scotland, Penkill Castle, during the summers of 1866 and 1869.
On 24th November 1876 [her daughter] Maria Francesca Rossetti [aged 49] died unmarried of overian cancer. She was buried in the convent plot at Brompton Cemetery, Kensington.
1877. [her son] Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 48]. Portraits of the artist's sister and mother [her daughter] Christina Georgina Rossetti [aged 46] and Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 76]
On 9th April 1882 [her son] Dante Gabriel Rossetti [aged 53] died. He was buried at All Saints Church, Birchington on Sea [Map]. There is a Celtic Cross marking his grave commissioned by his mother Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 81], designed by Ford Madox Brown [aged 60] and erected in the presence of his brother William Michael Rossetti [aged 52] and sister Christina Georgina Rossetti [aged 51] as written on the base of the cross.
Letters of Christina Rossetti. 30, Torrington Square, London. W.C., October 23. 1882.
My dear Alice [aged 57]
I think you will read my letter with both pleasure and pain. My dearest Mother [aged 82] sends love to you and hopes it will please you to accept from her a trifling remembrance of your dear friend who so truly admired you, our own [her son] Gabriel. Among a few things yesterday divided between herself and William [aged 53] is the brass plate of a sundial-perhaps the very one in the old Cheyne Walk garden-about 5 1/2 inches square. It has its 4 corner-screws all ready to work into stone or tree-stump and is (so far as I can perceive) quite perfect in condition. May we send it you down to Penkill?-and think of it as marking time somewhere in the beautiful place where you and Miss Losh2 cared for himself and for his health so kindly.
Send me a consenting word, please. Then my Mother will have the major gratification of presenting, and I the minor gratification of packing.
Always
Your affectionate friend
Christina G. Rossetti [aged 51].
Alice Boyd (1825-97) was the companion of William Bell Scott and his wife Letitia until his death. When AB's brother died in February of 1865, she inherited Penkill Castle, which both DGR and CGR visited during the 1860s. AB was introduced to CGR late in 1847 or early in 1848. Their subsequent friendship remained strong until CGR's death.
Note 2. AB's half sister. See letter no. 1299, n. 1.
Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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On 8th April 1886 Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori [aged 85] died. She was buried in the Rossetti Family Grave.