TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marsh,Jan
TI  - Christina Rossetti: a writer's life 
SN  - 067083517X (alk. paper)
AV  - PR5238 .M37 1995
U1  - 821/.8B 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking
KW  - Rossetti, Christina Georgina,
KW  - Women poets, English
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This, the first full-scale biography of Rossetti, reinstates her in her rightful place as a luminary among Victorian poets. Like Emily Dickinson, with whom she is often compared, Rossetti is a poet's poet who wrote some of the Victorian period's most lush, most original, and also some of its most restrained poetry; Because of the new appreciation for this highly accomplished work, and also because, through her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina is so closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites and their superb art and bohemian lives, there had been a resurgence of interest in this enigmatic writer; Here we learn of the deep sexual passions and ambivalence of her young adulthood; the men she chose and later denied; the warmth of her family life; her close ties to the grand literary figures of Victorian London; the religious devotion that suffused her later years; and her frustrated ambition to fulfill her life as an artist and a woman. Drawing on unread works and newly available letters, Marsh also makes sense for the first time of Rossetti's adolescent breakdown and recurrent depressions
ER  -