Rossetti, Christina Georgina
Rossetti, Christina Georgina ( 1830 – 94 ),sister of D. G. and W. M. Rossetti . She was educated at home, shared her brothers' intellectual interests, and contributed to their childhood family journals. Ill health (possibly strategic when young, but later severe) ended her attempts to work as a governess, and confined her to a quiet life. Her engagement to the painter James Collinson , an original member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , was broken off in 1850 when he rejoined the Roman Catholic Church; Christina, like her mother and sister Maria, was a devout High Anglican, much influenced by the Tractarians (see Oxford movement ). She contributed to the Germ ( 1850 ), where five of her poems appeared under the pseudonym ‘Ellen Alleyn’. In 1861 Macmillan's Magazine published ‘Up-hill’ and ‘A Birthday’, two of her best-known poems. Goblin Market and Other Poems appeared...
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