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
Oxford 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.
'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,
is recognised as one of the major poets of the Victorian period.
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
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 Timeline
Texts
Rossetti, Christina. A Pageant, and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1881.
Rossetti, Christina. Annus Domini. Editor Burrows, Henry William, James Parker, 1874.
Rossetti, Christina, and Andrew Motion. Commonplace. Hesperus, 2005.
Rossetti, Christina. Commonplace, and Other Short Stories. F. S. Ellis, 1870.
Rossetti, Christina. Goblin Market and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1862.
Rossetti, Christina, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems. New ed., Macmillan, 1875.
Rossetti, Christina. Letter and Spirit. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. and J. B. Young, 1883.
Rossetti, Christina, and William Michael Rossetti. Maude. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., J. Bowden, 1897.
Rossetti, Christina. Maude. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Archon Books, 1976.
Rossetti, Christina, and Dinah Mulock Craik. Maude; On Sisterhoods; A Woman’s Thoughts about Women. Editor Showalter, Elaine, New York University Press, 1993.
Rossetti, Christina. “Memoir; Notes”. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Norwood, 1979, pp. xlv - lxxi; 459.
Rossetti, Christina. New Poems. Editor Rossetti, William Michael, Macmillan, 1896.
Rossetti, Christina. Poems. New and enlarged ed., Macmillan, 1890.
Rossetti, Christina. “Scope of This Edition”. The Letters of Christina Rossetti, edited by Antony H. Harrison, University Press of Virginia, 2004, p. 1: xiii - xv.
Rossetti, Christina. Seek and Find. Society for Promoting Christian knowledge; Pott, Young, 1879.
Rossetti, Christina, and Arthur Hughes. Sing-Song. George Routledge and Sons, 1872.
Rossetti, Christina, and Arthur Hughes. Speaking Likenesses. Macmillan, 1874.
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press, 1990, 3 vols.
Rossetti, Christina. The Face of the Deep. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. and J. B. Young, 1892.
Rossetti, Christina. The Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti. Editor Rossetti, William Michael, Haskell House, 1968.
Rossetti, Christina. The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Editor Harrison, Antony H., University Press of Virginia, 2004, 4 vols.
Rossetti, Christina. “The Lowest Room”. Macmillan’s Magazine, Vol.
9
, pp. 436-9. Rossetti, Christina. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti. Editor Rossetti, William Michael, Macmillan, 1904.
Rossetti, Christina, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1866.
Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885.