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Christina Georgina Rossetti |
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894)
Rossetti was an English poet born in London and educated at home by her mother. She was both a poet and painter. She contributed to the Pre-Raphaelite magazine “The Germ” under a pseudonym, and it was her poem “Goblin Marked” that brought the first critical recognition to the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. In the 1840s her family was stricken with severe financial difficulties due to the deterioration of her father's physical and mental health. When she was 14, Rossetti suffered a nervous breakdown. Much of her lifetime was spent struggling with illness and death – in the people close to here and in her. Her breakdown was followed by bouts of depression and related illness. During this period she, her mother, and her sister interested in the Anglo-Catholic movement that was part of the Church of England. This religious devotion played a major role in Rossetti's personal life. In 1893 Rossetti developed cancer and Graves' disease then died the following year due to the cancer. She is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Christina Rossetti remained largely unnoticed and unread until the 1970s when feminist scholars began to recover and comment on her work. In the last few decades Rossetti's writing has been rediscovered and she has regained admittance into the Victorian literary canon.
Poem: Song (To a Butterfly)
Poem: Remember Me (To a Butterfly)
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