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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

LINKS

http://www.upei.ca/~english/202/victorian/crossetti.html

This link connects you to a web page hosted by the University of Prince Edward Island. It contains useful links to Christina Rossetti's poetry texts, as well as biographical and critical articles on her life and writing.

http://65.107.211.206/crossetti/crov.html

This link connects you to the Victorian Web entry on Christina Rossetti. Here you will find an extensive archive of primary and secondary works covering Christina Rossetti's writings in terms of major themes and patterns of imagery, as well as the political contexts, social movements, and intellectual backgrounds defining her era.

BIOGRAPHY

The daughter of Gabriele and Frances Rossetti, Christina Rossetti was also the sister of the famous Pre-Raphelite painter and sculptor Dante Gabriel Rossetti, for whom she posed as a model. At the age of 18, she became engaged to James Collinson, a member of Dante's Pre-Raphelite circle. After the death of her father, Christina led a reclusive life owing to her poor health that may have been a result of angina or tuberculosis. During the 1860s, Rossetti had a relationship with Charles Cayley but, as it happens, she never married him due, most likely, to the fact that he was not a professed Christian. Nevertheless, Christina had a close circle of friends and admirers that included such figures as Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Moreover, she was an active member of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge before her death in 1894.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Arseneau, Mary. The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999.

Burlinson, Kathryn. Christina Rossetti. Plymouth, UK: The British Council, 1998.

Chapman, Alison. The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

D'Amico, Diane. Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender, and Time. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer's Life. New York: Viking, 1995.

Palazzo, Lynda. Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

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