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Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was a political asylum seeker from Naples, and their mother, Frances Polidori, was a sister of Lord Byron's friend and doc, John William Polidori. Innate inside London and educated privately, she suffered ill-health inside her youth, however was already writing poetry inside her teens. Her engagement to the painter, James Collinson, was broken off because of religious differences (she was High Church Anglican). This own experience is credited using inspiring her virtually all popular verse form 'Remember'. She refused to marry Charles Cayley, whom she was deeply in love using, because of religious reasons. Several of her verse form were written for tikes. Hobgoblin Market seemed such as the youngsters's nursery rhyme by using its talk about hobgoblin. All the same, it was really an allegory for temptation. These are similar to the story of the Garden of Eden & Adam & Eve. Rossetti rejected a social globe of her brother's "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood", preferring "my shady crevice — which crevice enjoys the unique advantage of being to my certain knowledge the place assigned me." She died inside Londin, on December 29, 1894
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Christina Rossetti and Her Mother Photographed by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll). Goblin Market Poem. Christina Rossetti An online overview of the author and her work, links to historical and critical studies, as well as a selection of texts including, with original illustrations, the complete "Goblin Market." Selected Poetry of Christina Rossetti The text of 13 of her poems. Christina Rossetti Selected poetry, criticism, and biography. From University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Christina Rossetti Portrait, photograph of her tomb in the family plot at Highgate Cemetery, London, brief biography, and interactive visitor comments. Christina Rossetti Web Archive of poetry. Almost Paradise Collection Selection of poems released in December 2003. Editor's comments with contents, links, extracts, editing details and brief biography. Chistina Rossetti General information and links about her life and work, from the 1890's Society. Rossetti, Christina Romantic poems and biography. |
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