William Michael Rossetti

Her brother William thought her second poem was one about a Chinaman (representing the mainland of China) whose pig-tail (representing Hong Kong) is cut off; this was written to celebrate Britain's victory in the...

When William had a poem published in the Athenæum, however, Christina allowed Gabriel to select and retitle two of her poems for submission.

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

Praise for this second public collection was more muted and criticism more probing than before. John Westland Marston , reviewing this volume too for the Athenæum, was still positive, but regretted that most of...

In 1860 CR produced a gothic short story, Case 2: Folio 2, about a man who produced no reflection in mirrors. Her brother William remembered it as perhaps the best tale she ever wrote...

A predominantly biographical approach to her poetry dominated until near the close of the twentieth century. Following Mackenzie Bell 's study (which stressed her religious aspect) and William 's brief selective memoir, biographies of CR

The Rossetti family was reunited again and living together in William Michael 's house at 45 Upper Albany Street, London—all but Dante Gabriel , who by this time had chambers of his own.

His father was the Italian political exile Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe Rossetti . His mother, born Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori , was half-Italian. He had an elder sister, Maria Francesca , and two younger siblings who...

CR 's father, Gabriele , died the month after the family were reunited in the house of his younger son, William Michael .

Involved—with his brother , William Holman Hunt , John Everett Millais , and others—in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 's critique of the reigning artistic principles and values, DGR has subsequently become one of the most renowned...

After the marriage of her brother William , CR moved into the house of her aunts and mother at 30 Torrington Square, London.

CR 's brother William Michael edited her manuscript poetry and published it posthumously as New Poems, Hitherto Unpublished or Uncollected .

William Michael Rossetti ordered, edited, and produced a comprehensive, posthumous volume of his sister's work, entitled The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti.

CR 's brothers Dante Gabriel and William Michael were respectively two years and one year older than she was, and were respectively a painter and poet, and a civil servant and literary critic. Their relationship...

There were certainly physical symptoms, but some have suggested that she was subject also to depression or hysteria. The illness, or perhaps the mental distress, was serious enough to interrupt her preparation for confirmation. Her...