Christina Rossetti (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (roh-ZEHT-ee), born in London on December 5, 1830, was the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the youngest child of a Neapolitan political refugee who had settled in England and who became, eventually, professor of Italian at King’s College, University of London. Rossetti began to write poetry very early in life, and when she was seventeen a small volume of her work was printed at the private press of her grandfather, Gaetano Polidori. A year later, in 1848, one of her lyrics was published in The Athenaeum. When Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the...
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