Learning not to be first
Subtitle: the life of Christina Rossetti
By: by Kathleen Jones.
Publisher: Windrush
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Moreton-in-Marsh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Rossetti, Christina, -- 1830-1894.
Description: Variously described as 'the high-priestess of Pre-Raphaelitism' and 'Saint Christina', Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 into a talented Italian emigre family. While her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti forged ahead as a painter, founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Christina remained single and wrote poetry 'with a passion and purity of diction'. Kathleen Jones has written a fascinating biography, which lucidly describes both Christina's life and work, and her Victorian world.
Notes: Includesbibliography and index.