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Christina Georgina Rossetti


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   5 1830 () . , .  , , , . She was the sister of Dr John Polidori, Byron's physician companion and author of the Vampyre (1819).
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18 The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (for Mary), 20 Ecce Ancilla Domini!
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                   Christina Georgina Rossetti, one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England with such works as "The Goblin Market" (1862), "The Prince's Progress" (1866), "Sing-Song A Nursery Rhyme Book" (1872), along with many other individual poems. She was born in London December 5, 1830, to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti. Better off than some during this time, the Rossettis were a part of the middle class. Christina's father, Gabriel Rossetti, was from a working class family. After Gabriel was exiled from Italy, due to his association with Napolean, he came to London in 1824 and began working as an Italian teacher. Frances Lavinia, Christina's mother, who worked as a governess before marrying, came from a much wealthier family.
Although her fundamentally religious temperament was closer to her mother's, this youngest member of a remarkable family of poets, artists, and critics inherited many of her artistic tendencies from her father. Christina Rossetti was ill off and on throughout most of her life. Much of her illness could perhaps be due to the fact that she was forced to stay at home and care for her father; some say her illness was a form of rebellion. Christina Rossetti eventually died of cancer on December 29, 1894.
Judging from somewhat idealized sketches made by her brother Dante, Christina as a teenager seems to have been quite attractive if not beautiful. In 1848 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 1853, 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.
All three Rossetti women, at first devout members of the evangelical branch of the Church of England, were drawn toward the Tractarians in the 1840s. They nevertheless retained their evangelical seriousness: Maria eventually became an Anglican nun,
and Christina's religious scruples remind one of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot's Middlemarch : as Eliot's heroine looked forward to giving up riding because she enjoyed it so much, so Christina gave up chess because she found she enjoyed winning; pasted paper strips over the antireligious parts of Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon (which allowed her to enjoy the poem very much); objected to nudity in painting, especially if the artist was a woman; and refused even to go see Wagner's Parsifal, because it celebrated a pagan mythology.


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Example of Christina Rossetti's everyday attire



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     Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti de la casa de los Rossetti en Chelsea, Londres. (Fotografía tomada por Lewis Carroll, en 1863)


Christina Georgina Rossetti, after Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1877 - NPG P1273(1b) -  National Portrait Gallery, London


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From the Antigue

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   Or, better than any being, were not:

 

Were nothing at all in the world,

   Not a body and not a sole:

Not so much as a grain of dust

   Or drop of water from pole to pole.

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None would miss me in all the world,

   How much less would care or weep:

 

 

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Christina Rossetti after suffering from Grave's Disease 1877.
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          By the 1880s, recurrent bouts of Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, had made Rossetti an invalid, and ended her attempts to work as a governess. Rossetti's illness restricted her social life, but she continued to write sonnets and ballads. Especially she was interested the apocalyptic books, and such religious writers as Augustine and Thomas à Kempis. She also admired George Herbert and John Donne. Among her later works are A PAGEANT AND OTHER POEMS (1881), and THE FACE OF THE DEEP (1892). She was considered a possible successor to Alfred Tennyson as poet laureate. To accept the challenge, she wrote a royal elegy. However, Alfred Austin was appointed poet laureate in 1896. Rossetti developed a fatal cancer in 1891, and died in London on December 29, 1894.

 

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Christina Georgina Rossetti; Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1877 - NPG 990 -  National Portrait Gallery, London

Christina Georgina Rossetti; Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori)

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
chalk, 1877
16 3/4 in. x 19 in. (425 mm x 483 mm)
Given by the sitter's brother, William Michael Rossetti, 1895

Christina Rossetti poems 


        

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Christina as the model :    

  18  The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (for Mary), 20  Ecce Ancilla Domini!, .

1. The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (for Mary)

2. Ecce Ancilla Domini!  (and Frances Rossetti for St. Anne).

 




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