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Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) was one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England. Her simple, tender lyrics exhibit a remarkable warmth, directness, and passion for truth. She was born in London December 5, 1830, to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti, and was the younger sister to artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Although her fundamentally religious temperament was closer to her mother's, this youngest member of a remarkable family of poets, artists, and critics inherited many of her artistic tendencies from her father. In 1848 she became engaged to James Collinson, one of the minor Pre-Raphaelite brethren, but the engagement ended after he reverted to Roman Catholicism. She first published her poetry in the Pre-Raphaelite Journal - The Germ. Later well known poems include 'Remember', and 'When I am Dead My Dearest'.

Resources in This Category

• Almost Paradise Collection

  http://christinarossetti.co.uk/
  Selection of poems released in December 2003. Editor's comments with contents, links, extracts, editing details and brief biography.

• Christina Rossetti

  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2753
  Portrait, photograph of her tomb in the family plot at Highgate Cemetery, London, brief biography, and interactive visitor comments.

• Goblin Market

  http://plexipages.com/reflections/goblin.html
  Poem.

• Rossetti, Christina

  http://users.telenet.be/gaston.d.haese/rossetti.html
  Romantic poems and biography.

• Victorian Web: Christina Rossetti

  http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/index.html
  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."

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