Rossetti, Christina Georgina |
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BORN 5 Dec 1830, London - DIED 29 Dec 1894, London GRAVE LOCATION London: Highgate Cemetery West, Swain's Lane, Highgate |
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Youngest of the four Rossetti children. Because of her bad health
she was often at home with her mother. Like her, she was a strict
Anglican. Her engagement with the painter James Collinson was
broken off because he was a Catholic. In 1866 she rejected Charles
Bagot Cayley (with whom she was in love) because she did not
consider him to be a christian. They remained friends. She wrote
poetry and stories, some of them illustrated by her brother
Dante Gabriel. Work: "Goblin Market and Other Poems" (1862); "The Prince's Progress and Other Poems" (1866); "Sing-Song: a Nursery Rhyme Book" (1872); "Speaking Likenesses"; "Letter and Spirit". Family • Mother: Polidori, Frances Mary Lavinia • Father: Rossetti, Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe • Brother: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Related persons • was a friend of Bell, Henry Thomas Mackenzie • was written about by Bell, Henry Thomas Mackenzie • was engaged with Collinson, James • had work illustrated by Hughes, Arthur • inspired Khnopff, Fernand Sources • Crawford, Anne and others, The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, Europa Publications Ltd, London, 1983 • Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (editie 1909), 1909 • Redirects for Victorian Web, Postcolonial Web, and Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory • Jones, Kathleen, Learning not to be first, the Life of Christina Rossetti, The Windrush Press, Gloucestershire, 1991 • Marsch, Jan, Christina Rossetti, A Literary Biography, Random House, London, 1994 |