Rossetti, Christina Georgina |
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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 |
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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 • 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 |
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 The grave of Gabriele Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti and Lizzie Siddal at Highgate Cemetery West, London. Picture by Androom (28 Mar 2016) |
 The grave of Gabriele Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti and Lizzie Siddal at Highgate Cemetery West, London. Picture by Androom (28 Mar 2016) |
 Plaque for Christina Rossetti at 30 Torrington Square, London. She died in this house. Picture by Androom (14 Aug 2016) |
Sources • Crawford, Anne and others, The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, Europa Publications Ltd, London, 1983 • 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 • Winkler Prins Encyclopedie (editie 1909), 1909 |
