Family
names of her brothers
William and Dante Gabriel
'Still the world would wag on the same'
From the Antique 1854
Rossetti's branch of faith
Tractarian
'she is a poet of collision and confrontation'
Dinah Roe
1848 engagement
James Collinson (PRB painter)
the year her father died
1854
'Unwept, untended and alone'
Sappho 1846
Tractarian faith was part of
The Church of England
'her god is a harsh god'
Virginia Woolf
Proposed to Christina Rossetti in the 1850s
John Brett
volunteering placement from 1859-1864
St Mary's Magdalene Home for Fallen Women in Highgate
'Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.'
In an Artist's Studio
Family members who shared her beliefs
Maria, her sister, and her mother
'your sister should exercise herself in the severest commonplace of metre until she can write as the public like'
John Ruskin
Reason why she rejected Collinson
He converted to Roman Catholicism
1862 publication
Goblin Market and Other Poems
'Only, my secret's mine, and I won't tell.'
Winter: My Secret
Tractarianism is known as
the Oxford Movement, a 19th-century Anglican high church revival movement that sought to restore the church's ancient traditions and doctrine
The case for Rossetti as a proto-feminist poet is most compelling in her narrative poem ‘Goblin Market’.
Alice Kirby
1866 She refuses another proposal
Charles Bagot Cayley
1876 and 1886
Deaths of her sister Maria and of her mother ten years later
'They praise my rustling show, and never see'
L.E.L.
Rossetti's belief in what happened to a person's soul
Soul sleep is the belief that after death, a person's soul enters an unconscious, dormant state, like sleep, until the final resurrection and judgment, rather than immediately going to heaven or hell
Rossetti's poetry and her faith are in an 'angry embrace'
DR Ross Wilson
who she writes to until his death in 1883
Charles Bagot Cayley