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​ DM (AKA Diane) Denton (né DiGiacomo) is a native of Western New York. Her novels and short stories are poetry in prose, inspired by music, art, classic literature, nature, the contradictions of the human spirit, and wanders into the more obscure corners of the past.
     Her educational journey took her from a theater and communications major at SUNY Brockport to English literature and history studies at Rosary Hill College (now Daemen College) Amherst, NY, and Wroxton College, England. She stayed in the UK for 16 years in a small village with yellow-stone thatched cottages, a duck pond, a twelfth-century church, and a Jacobean Manor, surrounded by the beautiful hills, woods, and fields of the Oxfordshire countryside.     
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1971
Always writing and creating, DM Denton’s day jobs have included gardening, retail, administration, and volunteer coordinating at WNED Public Broadcasting. She currently works as clerk for the Zoning and Codes Administration of the small rural Western New York town where she resides with a multitude of cats.​
     DM Denton is also an artist who has illustrated the covers and interiors of her own and others’ books.​
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The Dove Upon Her Branch
​A Novel Portrait
​ of Christina Rossetti
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The Pre-Raphaelite Society’s two-page review of The Dove Upon Her Branch, A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti has been published in the summer 2024 edition of the PRS Review magazine!

PRS reviewer Sian Mitchell recognized it as a “thorough and expressive novel-portrait of the celebrated author’s life.

"Denton's novel is very evidently a labour of love, meticulously researched and crafted, which brings together academic research and creative reconstruction. It offers not only an insight into Rossetti's life, but more broadly into the interior workings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their acquaintances.

"Yet the most well-drawn characters must certainly be the Rossettis themselves, with Christina Rossetti at the heart. Denton provides an exploration of the unconventional life of the family, from its establishment in England through the lives of its artistic, and wildly different, offspring."
Read the full review on my blog bardessdmdenton.wordpress.com
​or
​in PDF format here.
Listen to my Pre-Raphaelite Society Podcast conversation about Christina and the novel with Ester Diaz

The Dove Upon Her Branch,
A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti
is available in
Paperback, for Kindle Devices and App,
and as an Audio Book.


​Too late for love, too late for joy,
Too late, too late!
You loiter'd on the road too long,
You trifled at the gate:
The enchanted dove upon her branch
Died without a mate;
The enchanted princess in her tower
Slept, died, behind the grate;
Her heart was starving all this while
You made it wait.
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from The Bride Song by Christina Rossetti​​
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Christina Rossetti photographed by Charles Dodgson, AKA Lewis Carroll

Christina Rossetti comes to us
​ as one of those splendid stars that are so far away
they are seen only at rare intervals.

Christina Rossetti focused her thought
on the beautiful object and at the best angle,
so the picture she brings us
is nobly ordered and richly suggestive.

from Christina Rossetti by Elbert Hubbard​

DM Denton, author and artist
Reaching out to the thinker, dreamer & aesthete ...​


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