The Rossetti family began attending Christ Church
in Albany Street, a centre of Anglo-Catholicism whose incumbent, the Rev. William Dodsworth
, profoundly affected CR
.
Jones, Kathleen. Learning Not to Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti. Windrush Press, 1991.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Christina Rossetti
Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired...
