The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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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