Harrison, Distinguished Professor and Head, Department of English, North Carolina State University, and author of several books on Christina Rossetti, recommends this sonnet as one of his favorite. Cambridge, London: Macmillan and Co., 1862.ĭr. “The World” from The Goblin Market and Other Poems. Posted in Beyond the Brownings, Exhibitions | Tagged Armstrong Browning Library, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Goblin Market, Happy New Year, Robert Browning, Speaking Likenesses, The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Leave a reply Giving Nineteenth Century Women Writers a Voice and a Face - Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)Ĭhristina Rossetti. This brief letter to an Unidentified correspondent conveys wishes for a Happy New Year (1885). Rossetti to an Unidentified Correspondent. To my/ Dearest Mother,/ In Grateful Remembrance Of The/ Stories/ With Which She Used To Entertain Her/ Children. The volume also contains Robert Browning’s poem, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.”Ĭhristina Georgina Rossetti. This volume contains illustrations by Christina’s brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 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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