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Christina Georgina Rossetti


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Picture of Christina Rossetti, poet; nineteenth century British Literature / English Literature and poetry

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                                Christina Rossetti spent most of her childhood between two places: Charlotte Street and Holmer Green. Her parents, Francis and Gabriele Rossetti, bought a house on Charlotte Street in London when they first married. Here they had all four of their children. In 1836, Gabriele decided that it was necessary to move to a bigger house...down the street. They moved from 38 Charlotte Street to 50 Charlotte Street. Gabriele writes in a letter to a friend, "I was obliged to make this change; my family has got to a stage that it is necessary at all costs to seperate the boys from the girls, and in the old house we couldn't do so". According to Mitchell's Daily Life in Victorian England, upper middle class families lived in a house with no less than ten rooms. The Rossetti's, whose financial situation over the years fluctuated greatly, met the requirements of a proper upper-middle class house. There were two rooms on the ground floor, two on the first floor, five or six bedrooms on the second and third floors, and then a kitchen in the basement.

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         Christina Rossetti Bedchamber. This fabric-draped bedchamber features feminine tones of twilight blue silk, misty taupe and copper-brown in a stunning space that celebrates Christina Rossetti’s Italian roots and her preoccupation with love and world beauty. The beautiful french canopy bed is the oldest in the home, originally from the 16oo’s. Because it is from such an earlier time, the bed is only a full-size and we recommend that no one over 5′10″ stay in the room because it is quite short. No queen or king-size beds back then!  This bedchamber also has a lovely carved wooden shelve and cupboard. It is perfect for the “travel-sized” couple or single woman looking to get away.

The cozy bath features an intimate , drapery-enclosed corner bath area with a whirlpool soaking tub,  and beautifully carved Italian mirror. This bedchamber is filled with dreamy romance.

        The Rossetti family spent much time at Grandfather Polidori's house at Holmer Green. Christina and her siblings would sometimes travel there with just their mother, leaving Gabriele by himself. Christina states later on in life to friend Mackenzie Bell that the garden at Holmer Green greatly effected her imagination. Polidori eventually moved to Reagent's Park in London, a short distance from where the Rossetti family resided. The cottage, according to Gabriele was marvelous, with "white marble mantlepieces, fireplaces of polished steel...and drains so good that the landlord says there are no better in the kingdom". He added "our house is sepulchre in comparison with it." 
     Christina Rossetti did not spend all of her adult life on Charlotte Street. She and her family eventually moved to 30 Torrington Square, where she lived for a majority of her life. Torrington Square, nicknamed "Torrington Oblong" by Dante Gabriel, fir in with the ordinary, dull-colored bricks used for so many London houses and because of time, weather, and soot, it was impossible to know what the original color had been. Christina was very much a recluse, but there were still many people that came to visit her in this house. Mackenzie Bell was one of them and commented on the house in a book her wrote about Christina Rossetti. He states:

"I have always felt that when houses were inhabited by persons of idiosyncrasy, or genius, they acquire in some inexplicable way some of the characteristics of their occupants...and never has this felling come upon me more strongly than in respect to Christina Rossetti's residence. About much of her best work there is a quietude, a controlled and well-ordered sadness, and I trust I shall not be deemed unduly fanciful when I say that I seemed to feel a like atmosphere whenever I entered her abode".

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                 Rossetti's personal habits were simple. She rose early, dined at one or two o'clock, taking a third meal in the evening. Some believe that the simplicity and regularity of her life was probably the cause of the considerable recuperative power which frequently suprised her physician during her illnesses. Simplicity seemed to be an adjective used quite a bit for Christina. It applied to her choice of wardrobe as well. When Mackenzie Bell first looked at Christina, she was wearing a "black silk dress, she wore no ornaments of any sort, and the prevailing sombre tint was only relieved by some simple white frilling at the throat and wrists." Her attire was refered to by a Mr. Shary as Quaker like, due to the "simplicity of her dress and the extreme and almost demure plainess of the material." She dressed this way only partly because it was all she could afford, but also because she did not consider herself a vain woman. She never really cared to impress those around her with such materialistic things as fancy clothes. Perhaps she did not care much for vanity because there was no need for it; Rossetti had been told throughout her life that she was a beauty.

 


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      , , The Germ Ellen Alleyn. Dream Land and An End, this poems appeared in the first issue of The Germ. , Charlotte Street. 18 The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (for Mary), 20 Ecce Ancilla Domini!, .

 

The Prince's Progress.

Time is short, life is is short, ' they took up the tale:

Life is sweet, love is sweet, use today while you may;

Love is sweet, and tomorrow may fail;

/ Christina Rossetti poems
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