Female : Religious Poet. Younger sister of poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. High Church. Home educated. Single and suffereing poor health, she lived most her life with her mother, Frances Polidori Rossetti. She turned down various offers of marriage because of religious differences. Wrote "In the Bleak Midiwnter"

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1830 Date of Death : 1894 Age : 64

Pseudonyms : Ellen Alleyn

Goblin Market & Other Poems
(1862 Macmillan) - frontis & title page by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Offered in 1999 for £485
(1865 Macmillan - 2nd Ed)
(1893 Macmillan) - Laurence Housman. + 160 large paper edition
Offered in 1999 for £200
(c1926 Blackie) - Florence Harrison
(1933 Harrap) (1933 Lippincott) - Arthur Rackham
+ De Luxe Ed of 410 signed by Rackham
(1981 Godine, Boston) - George Gershinowitz
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1847-1875
Verses (1847 PP) (1906 Eragny Press) - 185. Lucien Pissarro
The Prince's Progress & other Poems (1866 Macmillan) - D G Rossetti
Poems (1866 Roberts, Boston)
Commonplace and Other Stories (1870 F S Ellis, London)
Sing-Song : A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872 Routledge) - Arthur Hughes
(1893 Macmillan. New & Enlarged Ed) - Arthur Hughes
Speaking Likenesses (1874 Macmillan) - Arthur Hughes
Anus Domini : A Prayer for Each Day of the Year (1874 James Parker, Oxford)
Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1875 Macmillan) - D G Rossetti

1876-1900
Seek and Find : A Double Series of Short Studies of the Benedicite (1879 SPCK)
A Pageant & other Poems (1881 Macmillan)
Called to be Saints : The Minor Festivals Devotionally Studied (1881 SPCK)
Letter and Spirit : Notes on the Commandments (1883 SPCK)
Time Flies : A Reading Diary (1885 SPCK)
Poems (1891 Macmillan. New & Enlarged Ed) - D G Rossetti
The Face of the Deep : A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse (1892 SPCK)
Verses : Reprinted from 'Called to be Saints', etc (1893 SPCK)
New Poems, Hitherto Unpublished or Uncollected (1895 Macmillan) - edited by William Michael Rossetti
The Rossetti Birthday Book (1896 PP) - edited by Olivia Rossetti
Maude : A Story for Girls (1897 James Bowden, London) - 500

20thC
The Poetical Works, with a Memoir & Notes : edited by W M Rossetti (1904 Macmillan)
The Family Letters of Christina Geogina Rossetti (1908 Brown Langham) - Edited by W M Rossetti
Poems (1910 Blackie) - Florence Harrison
Poems : Chosen by Walter de la Mare (1930 Gregynog Press) - 275
Offered in 1998 for £220
Doves and Pomegranates (1969 Bodley Head) - Margery Gill
The Complete Poems : A Variorum Edition (1979-90 Louisiana State UP) - 3 vols
(Ed) A H Harrison : The Collected Letters of Christina Rossetti (1995 Virginia UP) - 2 vols
(Ed) David A Kent & P G Stanwood : Selected Prose of Christina Rossetti (1998 Macmillan £40)

READING
1896-1930
Ellen A Procter : A Brief Memoir of Christina G Rossetti (1896 SPCK)
Mackenzie Bell : Christina Rossetti - A Biographical & Critical Study (1898 Hurst & Blackett)
B F Westcroft : An Appreciation of the Late Christina Rossetti (1899 SPCK)
Elizabeth Lucy Cary : The Rossettis - Dante Gabriel & Christina (1901 Knickerbocker Press, NY)
Edith Birkhead : Christina Rossetti & her Poetry (1930 Harrap)
Mary F Sandars : Christina Rossetti (1930 Hutchinson)
D M Stuart : Christina Rossetti (1930 Macmillan)

1931-1980
Fredegon Shove : Christina Rossetti (1931 Cambridge)
Eleanor W Thomas : Christina Rossetti (1931 NY)
R D Waller : The Rossetti Family 1824-1854 (1932 Manchester UP)
Marya Zaturenska : Christina Rossetti - A Portrait with a Background (1949 Macmillan NY)
Margaret Sawtell : Christina Rossetti - Her Life & Religion (1955 Mowbray)
Lona Mosk Packer : Christina Rossetti (1963 CUP)
R K Crump : Christina Rossetti - A Reference Guide (1974 G K Hall, US)
Nilda Juminez : The Bible and the Poetry of Christina Rossetti - A Concordance
(1979 Greenwood Press)
Stanley Weintraub : Four Rossettis - A Victorian Biography (1978 London)

After 1981
Georgina Battiscombe : Christina Rossetti (1981 Constable)
Anthony H Harrison : Christina Rossetti in Context (1988 Harvester Press)
Kathleen Jones : Learning Not to be First - The Life of Christina Rossetti (1991 Windrush Press)
Frances Thomas : Christina Rossetti - A Biography (1992 Self Publishing Assoc)
Jan Marsh : Christina Rossetti - A Literary Biography (1995 Cape £25)