The Rossettis................

Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), poet.
Christina Rossetti's first productions were printed privately, 1842 and 1847. She contributed to the Germ under the pseudonym "Ellen Alleyne" in 1850. She also published Goblin Market (1862), Commonplace (1870), Sing Song (1872), and subsequently composed mainly devotional literature.



Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), painter and poet.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti studied at the Royal Academy 1846, and later under Ford Madox Brown. He met Woolner, Holman Hunt and Millais, and founded the Pre-Raphaelite school of Painting. After the death of his wife in 1862, D.G. Rossetti lived with his brother William, Mr. Swinburne, and George Meredith.




William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919), writer and critic.
A pre-Raphaelite writer and art critic, William Rossetti also edited the works of his brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He edited four editions of D.G. Rossetti's collected works, Memoir (1895), and Christina Rossetti's New and Collected Poems (1904).

Rossetti, Christina Georgina.
The Prince's Progress and Other Poems.
Macmillan, 1866.

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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.
The House of Life ... Being Now for the First Time Given in Its Full Text.
Boston: Copeland & Day, 1894.
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Rossetti, William Michael.
Swineburne's Poems and Ballads: A Criticism.
J.C. Hotten, 1866.