William and Marie. A Ballad William and Mary. A Ballad Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1841
ballad <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>When DGR completed the ballad he submitted it for publication in <bibl> <xref doc="a."> <title level="per"> <hi rend="i">Smallwood's</hi> magazine (which published two volumes in 1841) along with an illustration for lines 69-72. The work was not accepted.

Two texts of this early ballad imitation survive, both in DGR's hand (though Baum incorrectly ascribes the Duke transcription to DGR's father Gabriele). Both are DGR's fair copies. The Duke manuscript was sent to the editor of <hi rend="i">Smallwood's</hi> and was made from the Rosenbach manuscript. The Duke manuscript is titled “William and Marie” while the Rosenbach's title is “William and Mary”. Lines 65-68 are an addition made to the Rosenbach manuscript after it was copied out by DGR.

Fisher's commentary on the ballad usefully locates it in the ballad tradition that DGR cultivated all his life. As is well known DGR was especially drawn to the ballad's gothic and supernatural strains.

Textual History: Composition

WMR dates the ballad to 1843 but the existence of DGR's letter to <hi rend="i">Smallwood's</hi> indicates this date is not correct.

Textual History: Revision

Production History

Reception

Iconographic

Printing History

The ballad was first published from the Duke manuscript in 1971 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV.

Pictorial

Historical

Literary

Translation

Autobiographical

Bibliographic

Baum, <hi rend="i">Dante Gabriel Rossetti. An Analytical List of Manuscripts in the Duke University Library</hi> (1931), 3-5 Fisher, “DGR's ‘William and Marie’” (1971), 121-129

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Duke Library MS Fredeman Cabinet pen and ink William and Marie William and Mary Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1841 0 William and Marie Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1841 0 William and Marie DGR 1841 (circa) pen and ink 1 The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies Special Issue: A Rossetti Cabinet: A Portfolio of Drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti William E. Fredeman 1991 0