St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary

She signed herself in the full form of Christina G. Rossetti throughout her life in correspondence to family members and friends as well as strangers. In signed publications she was credited thus or simply as...

CR worked with reformed prostitutes as an associate of the St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary , at Park House in Highgate.

This best-known poem has had myriad editions, often with illustrations, and generated a wide range of interpretation. It resonates powerfully with CR 's Anglicanism , and more particularly her experience at the St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary