Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Crump, Rebecca W.Editor , Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
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Dedications | Christina Rossetti | CR
completed her most celebrated poem, Goblin Market; in manuscript it was dedicated to her sister
, referring to her by her initials. Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Crump, Rebecca W.Editor , Louisiana State University Press, 1990. 1: 234 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | CR
's sister Maria
was three years her senior and the bond between them was close. She became a governess and an author of textbooks (Exercises in Idiomatic Italian through Literal Translation from the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | In the wake of William's engagement, their sister Maria
decided to enter the Anglican All Saints Sisterhood
. This entailed her moving permanently away from the sister with whose life hers had been from the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | On 24 November 1876 CR
's sister Maria
died of cancer after a painful illness. She was followed by Dante Gabriel
on 9 April 1882, then by CR
's long-time friend Charles Cayley
(for whom... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 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... |
Publishing | Christina 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Christina Rossetti |
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