Her First Season

Her First Season William Michael Rossetti 1 1849 <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>The sonnet is WMR's. It was included, according to WMR, in order to fill in the space at the end of his review (see <xref doc="a.nd467.5.p7r58.rad" link="dead">Fredeman, <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">The P.R.B. Journal</hi> , entry for 28 December 1849). The title focuses the wit of the poem, which means to contrast the London social “Season” and its marketting of women with the seasons of “nature”. WMR may well have written the sonnet to pair with Patmore's “The Seasons”, printed earlier in the same number.

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First printed in <hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> no. 1, page 46.

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Fredeman 145-148 Fredeman, <hi rend="i">The P.R.B. Journal</hi> 46

Germ text Germ text The Germ (British Library Copy, first issue) William Michael Rossetti 1850 January 1 0 The Germ (1901 Facsimile Reprint, issue 1) William Michael Rossetti 1901 0