Christina rossetti when was she born

Christina Rossetti was born in London in , and lived with her mother virtually all of her life. She never married. Next to a biography of her brother Dante Gabriel, the biography of Christina Rossetti can seem tame by comparison; but her work is curious and idiosyncratic and raises interesting questions about how much it reflects her own life and her own beliefs. In terms of beliefs, Christina was High Church rather than Low, and was heavily influenced by the Oxford Movement of the s.

Christina Rossetti composed her first poem while still a very young girl; she dictated it to her mother. Christina Rossetti had in fact had a volume of her poems titled simply Verses privately printed in , though it attracted little attention.

Goblin Market and Other Poems was the first collection of her poetry to be published rather than printed, and it was the book that brought her to public attention. She was remarkably prolific: her Complete Poems Penguin Classics runs to well over 1, pages and is a treasure-trove for the poetry-lover. She took her influences from everyone from the King James Bible to the Metaphysical Poets to the Romantics, but there is something distinctive about her poetry.

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Teach This Poem. Follow Us. Find Poets. Poetry Near You. Jobs for Poets. Read Stanza. Privacy Policy. Press Center. First Book Award. In she became engaged to James Collinson, one of the minor Pre-Raphaelite brethren, but the engagement ended after he reverted to Roman Catholicism. When Professor Rossetti's failing health and eyesight forced him into retirement in , Christina and her mother attempted to support the family by starting a day school, but had to give it up after a year or so.

Thereafter she led a very retiring life, interrupted by a recurring illness which was sometimes diagnosed as angina and sometimes tuberculosis. From the early '60s on she was in love with Charles Cayley, but according to her brother William, refused to marry him because "she enquired into his creed and found he was not a Christian. Lona Mosk Packer argues that her poems conceal a love for the painter William Bell Scott , but there is no other evidence for this theory, and the most respected scholar of the Pre-Raphaelite movement disputes the dates on which Packer thinks some of the more revealing poems were written.

All three Rossetti women, at first devout members of the evangelical branch of the Church of England , were drawn toward the Tractarians in the s.