See also:

• CHRISTINA (1626–1689)
• CHRISTINA [MARIA CHRISTINA HENRIETTA DESIREE FELICITE RENIERE]

CHRISTINA GEORGINA See also:

• CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)
• ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882)

ROSSETTI (1830-1894)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English poet, was the youngest of the four See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children of Gabriele See also:

• ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA (1830-1894)
• ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-1882)

Rossetti (see the See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on her See also:

• BROTHER

brother See also:

• DANTE

DANTE See also:

• GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

GABRIEL ROSSETTI) . She was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at 38 See also:

• CHARLOTTE

Charlotte See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street, See also:

• PORTLAND
• PORTLAND, EARL OF
• PORTLAND, ISLE OF
• PORTLAND, WILLIAM BENTINCK, EARL
• PORTLAND, WILLIAM HENRY CAVENDISH BENTINCK

Portland See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

Place, See also:

• LONDON

London, on the 5th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 183o . She enjoyed the advantages and disadvantages of the See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange society of See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian exiles and English eccentrics which her See also:

• FATHER

father gathered about him, and she shared the studies of her gifted See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder brother and See also:

• SISTER

sister . As See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as 1847 her grandfather, Gaetano Polidori, printed privately a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of her Verses, in which the richness of her See also:

• VISION (from Lat. videre, to see), or SIGHT

vision was already faintly prefigured . In 185o she contributed to The Germ seven pieces, including some of the finest of her lyrics . In her girlhood she had a See also:

• GRAVE

grave, religious beauty of feature, and sat as a See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model not only to her brother Gabriel, but to See also:

• HOLMAN, JAMES (1786–1857)

Holman See also:

• HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

Hunt, to Madox See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

Brown and to See also:

• MILLAIS, SIR JOHN EVERETT (1829-1896)

Millais . In 1853–54 See also:

• CHRISTINA (1626–1689)
• CHRISTINA [MARIA CHRISTINA HENRIETTA DESIREE FELICITE RENIERE]

Christina Rossetti for nearly a See also:

• YEAR

year helped her See also:

• MOTHER

mother to keep a See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day-school at See also:

• FROME

Frome-Selwood, in See also:

• SOMERSET, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• SOMERSET, EDMUND BEAUFORT, DUKE OF (c. 1404–1455)
• SOMERSET, EDWARD SEYMOUR, DUKE OF (c. 1506–1552)
• SOMERSET, LORD ROBERT EDWARD HENRY (1776-1842)
• SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR (or KER), EARL OF (e. 1590-1645)

Somerset . Early in 1854 the Rossettis returned to London, and the father died . In poverty, in See also:

• ILL

ill-See also:

• HEALTH

health, in extreme quietness, she was now performing her See also:

• LIFE

life-See also:

• WORK

work . She was twice sought in See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage, but each See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, from religious scruples (she was a strong high-See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church See also:

• ANGLICAN

Anglican), she refused her suitor; on the former of these occasions she sorrowed greatly, and her suffering is reflected in much of her early See also:

• SONG

song . In 1861 she saw See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign countries for the first time, paying a six See also:

• WEEKS, EDWIN LORD (1849-1903)

weeks' visit to See also:

• NORMANDY

Normandy and See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . In 1862 she published what was practically her earliest See also:

• BOOK

book, Goblin See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

Market, and took her place at once among the poets of her See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age .

In this volume, indeed, is still to be found a See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of her finest writings . The See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince's Progress followed in 1866 . In 1867 she, with her See also:

• FAMILY

family, moved to 56 Euston Square, which became their See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home for many years . Christina's See also:

• PROSE

prose work See also:

• COMMONPLACE

Commonplace appeared in 1870 . In See also:

• APRIL

April 1871 her whole life was changed by a terrible affliction, known as " See also:

• GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846— )

Graves's disease "; for two years her life was in See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant danger . She had already composed her book of children's poems, entitled Sing-Song, which appeared in 1872 . After a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long convalescence, she published in 1874 two See also:

• WORKS

works of See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor importance, Annus Domini and Speaking Likenesses . The former is the earliest of a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of theological works in prose, of which the second was Seek and Find in 1899 . In 1881 she published a third collection of poems, A See also:

• PAGEANT

Pageant, in which there was See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence of slackening lyrical See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power . She now gave herself almost entirely to religious disquisition . The most interesting and See also:

• PERSONAL

personal of her prose publications (but it contained See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse also) was Time Flies (1885)—a sort of symbolic See also:

• DIARY

diary or collection of brief homilies . In 1890 the S.P.C.K. published a volume of her religious verse .

She collected her poetical writings in 1891 . In 1892 she was led to publish a very bulky commentary on the See also:

• APOCALYPSE
• APOCALYPSE (Gr. aaoKaXvti/hr, disclosure)
• APOCALYPSE, KNIGHTS OF THE

Apocalypse, entitled The See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

Face of the Deep . After this she wrote little . Her last years were spent in retirement at 30 See also:

• TORRINGTON
• TORRINGTON (GREAT TORRINGTON)
• TORRINGTON, GEORGE BYNG, VISCOUNT (1663-1733)

Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, which was her home from 1876 to her See also:

• DEATH

death . In 1892 her health See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke down finally, and she had to endure terrible suffering . From this she was released on the 29th of December 1894 . Her New Poems were published posthumously in 1896 . In spite of her See also:

• MANIFEST (Lat. manifestus, clear, open to view)

manifest limitations of sympathy and experience, Christina Rossetti takes See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank among the foremost poets of her time . In the purity and solidity of her finest lyrics, the glow and See also:

• MUSIC

music in which she See also:

• ROBES (Fr. robe, Late Lat. roba, raupa, meaning (1)

robes her moods of See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy See also:

• REVERIE

reverie, her extraordinary mixture of austerity with sweetness and of sanctity of See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone with sensuousness of See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, Christina Rossetti, in her best pieces, may See also:

• CHALLENGE (O. Fr. chalonge, calenge, &c., from Lat. calumnia, originally meaning trickery, from calvi, to deceive, hence a false accusation, a " calumny ")

challenge comparison with the most admirable of our poets . The See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union of fixed religious faith with a hold upon See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical beauty and the richer parts of nature has been pointed to as the most See also:

• ORIGINAL

original feature of her See also:

• POETRY

poetry . Hers was a cloistered spirit, timid, See also:

• NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)

nun-like, bowed down by suffering and humility; her See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character was so retiring as to be almost invisible . All that we really need to know about her, See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save that she was a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint, was that she was a great poet .

(E . G.) See the Poetical Works of C . G . R., with Memoir by W . M . Rossetti (1903) . Also See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

Edmund See also:

• GOSSE, EDMUND (1849– )
• GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY (1810–r888)

Gosse's See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

Critical See also:

• KIT (1) (probably an adaptation of the Middle Dutch kitie, a wooden tub, usually with a lid and handles; in modern Dutch kit means a tankard)

Kit-Kats (1896) ; an article by See also:

• FORD, EDWARD ONSLOW
• FORD, JOHN (r586–c.1640)
• FORD, RICHARD (1796-1858)
• FORD, THOMAS (b. c. 158o)

Ford Madox Hueffer in the Fortnightly See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review (See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 19o4); and another in The See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian Society (Oct . 1904) . The Family Letters of Christina Rossetti were edited by W . M . Rossetti in 1908 .