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...just such a neglected writer. He was the son of the London Times's erudite German music critic, Dr. Francis Hueffer (the son changed his surname to Ford after World War I), as well as a grandson of Victorian Painter Ford Madox Brown and a cousin of the Rossetti family. A precocious schoolboy, he began writing while still in his teens, but almost from the beginning he showed that the only noise he was likely to make would be in praise of others...
Prominent among the newcomers for which the anonymous compilers made way are Christina Rossetti's sentimental Christmas poem In the Bleak Midwinter...
...Director Rothenstein had made his point. The selection committees had purchased no Hogarths, Reynoldses, Gainsboroughs, Constables, Turners, Blakes or Lawrences. Among later artists, there were no canvases by Whistler or Rossetti-though there were a great many by Royal Academicians. This week, except for about 30 paintings and sculptures which the Tate had always thought worth looking at, the exhibit went back into deep freeze -Psyche...
...Evelyn Waugh's well-honed tongue is as celebrated as his snobbishness, social climbing and personal courage. Says an equally cruel contemporary: "One can find Evelyn's biography in the dedications of his books, each displaying a further step in his social progress." His first book, Rossetti; His Life and Works, was dedicated to Evelyn Gardner (fourth daughter of the first & last Baron Burghclere, and later Mrs. Evelyn Waugh No. 1). The Loved One is dedicated to Nancy Mitford, sister of the late Unity Mitford...
Founder Tate always liked a picture that told a story, so the gallery began with such contemporary favorites as Sir Luke Fildes' The Doctor, Lord Leighton's The Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead, and Millais' drowned Ophelia (his model: Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who posed fully gowned in a tub of flower-littered water...