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Karen Yuen, the 2010 University of Delaware Library/Delaware Art Museum Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies, will speak on "The Music of Dante Gabriel Rossetti" on Tuesday, 20 April, at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, DE. Her talk will focus on Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s changing attitude towards music as he matured. Described by his peers as a “music hater,” Rossetti was, at the same time, the most musically-inspired Pre-Raphaelite, producing countless paintings with color harmonies and musical instruments. Dr. Yuen’s research and presentation will explain the nature of Rossetti’s relationship with music, tracing the development of music in Rossetti’s works from the late 1840s to the 1870s. Prior to the lecture, the galleries devoted to the museum's Pre-Raphaelite collection (the largest outside the UK) will be open. Tuesday, 20 April 2010 4.00 p.m. Delaware Art Museum 2301 Kentmere Parkway Wilmington, DE (302) 371-9590 The lecture is free and open to the public.

Martin Haggerty has told us about two events sponsored by the Edward Thomas Fellowship which will be of interest to those interested in William Morris. The first, "Fields of Vision," an informal study-day devoted to the lives and writings of Richard Jefferies and Edward Thomas, is a collaboration between the Edward Thomas Fellowship and the Richard Jefferies Society. It will examine both writers, particularly their shared interests and concerns, and the Wiltshire landscape that they both knew and wrote about. Jem Poster, the distinguished poet, novelist and literary scholar, who is currently preparing a new edition of Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work by Edward Thomas for Oxford University Press, will be the keynote speaker. His lecture is entitled "First Known When Lost: Edward Thomas, Richard Jefferies, and the Rural World." There will also be talks by Richard Emeny (chairman of the Edward Thomas Fellowship, who has written and lectured prolifically on Thomas