Justin A. Sider
Justin A. Sider is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Parting Words: Victorian Poetry and Public Address (University of Virginia, 2018).
In the autumn of 1849, the young poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti visited Paris for the first time, on a continental excursion with his fellow Pre-Raphaelite, William Holman Hunt. The trip had been funded by the recent sale of his painting, The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1848–49), to the Marchioness of Bath for eighty pounds.