Narrative Fragment

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1850?
Genre: prose

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

The only known text of this work is a fragmentary draft on a small sheet of paper in the South African National Gallery. The text appears some kind of diary notation reflecting on an event in DGR's life and relations with a friend. The number “4” in the upper right corner suggests that this is the fourth page of the document, the previous pages being missing.

It is also possible that the text is part of a sketch for a fiction that DGR was planning to write.

Textual History: Composition

The text is early, 1850 or 1849.

Printing History

The fragment has never been printed.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File: 29-1850.raw.xml