Christina Rossetti

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Standard Name: Rossetti, Christina
Birth Name: Christina Georgina Rossetti
Pseudonym: C. G. R.
Pseudonym: Ellen Alleyne
Pseudonym: Calta
Nickname: Sister Christina
CR wrote and published poetry ranging from religious poetry, love lyrics, and sonnets to narrative and dramatic verse. She published five successive volumes of verse, three collected editions, and many individual poems in anthologies and periodicals, from the 1840s until her death in the 1890s. She occupies a liminal position in relation to the Pre-Raphaelite movement: deeply influenced by and indebted to it, she developed a voice and preoccupations in many respects distinct from those of its male members, partly because of her equally strong absorption in the High AnglicanOxford Movement. Goblin Market, the poem for which she is best known, has frequently been re-issued as a children's fable, but has also been convincingly read as a complex exploration of religion, gender, and sexuality. Some of her other verse was specifically aimed at children. Her attempts at prose fiction, of which a volume appeared in her lifetime and another posthumously, were not as well received as her poetry. CR 's devotional writing, which intensified towards the end of her life, includes hymns and other religious verse, as well as six volumes of religious commentary presented from a distinctively female standpoint. A writer who combined abiding interest in symbol and correspondence with stylistic austerity and metrical innovation that presaged modernism, CR is recognised as one of the major poets of the Victorian period.

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Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
While ES was working as a dressmaker in a milliner's shop, she came into contact with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood through a connection with the family of the principal of the London School of Design ...
politics Queen Victoria
Most Victorian women writers commented in some way on the Queen's role. Christina Rossetti engaged with it positively in Our Widowed Queen, while George Eliot 's narrator in Felix Holt, the Radical refers to...
politics Augusta Webster
Among those she courted for the cause was Christina Rossetti , who wrote to AW that [m]any who have thought more and done much more than myself share your views,— and yet they are not...
Publishing Philip Larkin
During the later 1950s PL reviewed poetry for the then Manchester Guardian, and during the next decade he reviewed jazz for the Daily Telegraph. He occasionally wrote for the periodical press about other...
Publishing Caroline Norton
CN 's prolific reviewing included a signed notice, published in Macmillan's Magazine on 8 September 1863, of Coventry Patmore 's The Angel in the House and Christina Rossetti 's Goblin Market.
Publishing Michael Field
Writing under their shared pen name of MF , Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper published the sonnet To Christina Rossetti in The Academy, a little over a year following Rossetti's death.
The Academy.
1248 (4 April 1896): 284
Publishing Anna Mary Howitt
During her time in Munich and her briefer time in Oberammergau, AMH wrote articles which were published in the Ladies' Companion, the Athenæum, and Household Words. Her description of the Oberammergau passion...
Publishing Dinah Mulock Craik
The undated second issue of the first edition added a frontispiece.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books.
70
The monograph essay is available online at the Victorian Women Writers Project at http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/craik/thoughts.html#Text. It was also republished along with DMC 's On...
Publishing Katharine Tynan
In 1906 KT published two books in commemmoration of loved ones: A Book of Memory: The Birthday Book of the Blessed Dead and A Little Book for John O'Mahony 's Friends, written in memory...
Publishing Ellen Wood
EW , as Mrs. Henry Wood, edited her first issue of the sixpenny monthly The Argosy, which she had bought two months before. This first issue launched her new novel, Anne Hereford...
Reception Ann Hawkshaw
AH 's work has been sporadically reprinted. She is one of the poets included in Annie Hone 's 1891 collection The Children's Casket: Favourite Poems for Recitation, along with Jean Ingelow , Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Reception L. E. L.
Although LEL died on the cusp of the Victorian period, she was widely read in its early years, and was invoked explicitly by many other writers who followed her, including women poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Reception Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW 's retirement from Sylvia's Journal did not hinder her growing literary reputation. In April 1894 she was featured (as Graham R. Tomson and with a flattering photograph) alongside E. Nesbit , Christina Rossetti ,...
Reception Ann Radcliffe
Christina Rossetti agreed to write on AR , for a fee of £50, in John H. Ingram 's Eminent Women series, but in September she gave the project up, in despair about finding information.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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Reception Isabella Banks
By the age of twenty-one IB was a poetess of some local repute in and around Manchester.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten.
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Her biographer E. L. Burney notes that both Eliza Cook and Christina Rossetti corresponded with her...

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