This masterful and monumental edition is of a kind that is already becoming visible only in the rear-view mirror as textual scholarship and scholarly editing make use of new digital media, but it is a fitting monument to the life's work of one of the great scholars of the twentieth century.
VICTORIAN POETRY
A highly significant addition to ... Read morePre-Raphaelite scholarship.
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I should like to draw initial attention to the publication by D.S. Brewer of these three splendid volumes [4,5 and 6] .... Scholarship of this quality does not come cheap, but deserves to be supported by all who value it. [...] Rossetti's letters are those of a man fully engaged with whatever he undertook, and it is a great pleasure to salute these volumes from D.S. Brewer.
THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM MORRIS STUDIES
Fredeman's magnificently edited, annotated, appendixed and indexed edition, which is also beautifully produced, is testimony to an immensely impressive editorial labour of love. [...]
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Fredeman has reproduced, sourced and annotated every known letter by Rossetti, and provided appendices in which one seems to be reading the story of a whole generation.[...]
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This is a magnificent work of scholarship, long overdue and to be warmly welcomed. In it, the story of these turbulent years in Rossetti's life is told again, not by a biographer recharging a well-known legend, but by an editor scrupulously sifting and reassessing small pieces of evidence.
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