Dante Gabriel Rossetti (11 May 1828–9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator who was a member of the Rossetti family. With William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, he created the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. Rossetti is best known for his paintings and poems about the medieval Italian poet Dante. He was born in London to Mary Ann "Mauger" Rossetti, a Scottish dressmaker, and William Rossetti, a printer and publisher from North Yorkshire who had migrated to London to work as an apprentice for Thomas Cundy, one of the founders of The Times newspaper. His father died when he was only nine years old, and his mother soon after married another man. Left alone with her parents' servants until she could support herself, Mary Ann often spent hours sitting with her son at home while he waited for her to return from work. He learned to read and write early, and enjoyed drawing from an early age. After his father's death, Rossetti went to live with his uncle, Christopher Rossetti, and his wife, Elizabeth Barrow. Here he became friends with other young artists such as Edward Burne-Jones and Henry James Poynter, and began to exhibit his drawings in public for the first time. In 1847, he contributed illustrations to two books by Lord Byron: Poems and Songs.