London : New York: George Routledge and Sons, Limited E.P Dutton & Co, 1905. There are notes on the flyleaf and an attached postcard noting the provenance of the volume.Ĭhristina Georgina Rossetti. This volume is a first edition, advance proof copy sent to the Brownings. Cambridge, London: Macmillan and Co, 1862. The Armstrong Browning Library holds over thirty of Christina’s books and two letters.Ĭhristina Georgina Rossetti. Maria was distinguished by her study of Dante, Dante Gabriel by his poetry and painting, William Michael by his art and literary criticism, and Christina by her poetry. She wrote a variety of devotional, romantic, and children’s poems, and is perhaps most well-known for the lyrics of the Christmas carol “In the Bleak Midwinter,” her long poem Goblin Market, and her love poem “Remember.”Ĭhristina was the youngest child of an extraordinarily gifted family, Maria Francesca, Gabriel Charles Dante, William Michael, and Christina Georgina, all born between 18. After Barrett Browning’s death in 1861, readers saw Rossetti as Barrett Browning’s rightful successor. Written by Melinda Creech, Graduate Assistant, Armstrong Browning LibraryĬhristina Georgina Rossetti shared the limelight with Elizabeth Barrett Browning as the greatest female poet of the nineteenth century.
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