Rossetti, Christina Georgina |
POET (ENGLAND) |
BORN 5 Dec 1830, London: 38 Charlotte Street (now: 110 Hallam Street) - DIED 29 Dec 1894, London: 30 Torrington Square, Camden CAUSE OF DEATH cancer (breast and shoulder) GRAVE LOCATION London: Highgate Cemetery West, Swain's Lane, Highgate |
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 Brother: Rossetti, William Michael Related persons was a friend of Bell, Henry Thomas Mackenzie was written about by Bell, Henry Thomas Mackenzie was engaged to Collinson, James had work illustrated by Hughes, Arthur knew Ingelow, Jean inspired Khnopff, Fernand |