WOOLNER

Woolner was a sculptor and poet who was one of the founder-members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was the only sculptor among the original members.Once A Week was a British weekly illustrated literary magazine published by Bradbury & Evans from 1859 to 1880. According to John Sutherland, [h]istorically the magazine's main achievement was to provide an outlet for [an] innovative group of illustrators [in] the 1860s. The magazine was founded because of a dispute between Bradbury and Evans and Charles Dickens. Bradbury and Evans had been Dickens' publisher since 1844, including publishing his magazine Household Words. In 1859, Bradbury and Evans refused to carry an advertisement by Dickens explaining why he had broken with Mrs. Dickens. In consequence, Dickens stopped work on Household Words and founded a new magazine, All The Year Round, which he decided would be editorially independent of any publisher. Bradbury and Evans responded by founding Once A Week, with veteran editor and abolitionist hero Samuel Lucas at the head.The lady in question, who he does not actually name is almost certainly Mary Eliza ROGERS (1828-1919) who was a British magazine contributor. She contributed occasional verses to Sharpe's, Once a Week; and The Moslem Lover's Complaint to A Welcome, 1863. She was the author of Domestic Life in Palestine, 1862, her account of her residence in the East (1855-1859) with her brother Edward Thomas Rogers, then vice-consul in Haifa.