Year of death?
1894
In 1884, what did Rossetti name as a poetic influence?
“the delightful idle liberty to prowl all alone about my grandfather’s cottage-grounds” Grandfather Polidori’s cottage at Holmer Green.
When did the Tractarian/Oxford movement reach London? (roughly)
1840s
When did Gabriel Rossetti’s (her father’s) health decline, requiring the nursing of Christina?
1843 (same year Ibsen moved to Grimstead)
When did Rossetti suffer her first breakdown of health?
1845 (14 years old)
What are three theories which diagnose Rossetti’s collapse of health in 1845?
Heart condition
mentally ill, religious mania
Sexual Trauma (Jan Marsh, Biographer)
When did Rossetti begin volunteering at St. Mary Magdeline penitentiary for fallen women at highgate?
Early 1859
What year did Rossetti write ‘The iniquity of the fathers upon the children’
1866
What year did her engagement to James Collinson end?
1850 (same year as Ibsen’s job at Oslo)
Which years was Rossetti ill with Graves’ disease?
1870-1872
In 1878, what did Rossetti write to the poet Augusta Webster in stating her opinions against women’s suffrage?
“the highest functions are not in this world open to both sexes,”
What quote from Galations did Rossetti cite in her letter to Webster regarding women’s suffrage?
“in Christ there is…
neither male nor female, for we are all one (Gal.iii.28).”
How did Rossetti characterise her younger self when speaking to her young niece?
“You must not imagine, my dear girl, that your Aunt was always the…
calm and sedate person you now behold. I, too, had a very passionate temper; but I learnt to control it.”
What was her Father’s nickname for herself and Dante and opposed to the other two Rossetti children?
They were the “two storms” whereas the others were the “two calms”.
What did her brother William Rossetti say about Christina’s character?
“In innate character she was vivacious, and open to pleasurable impressions; and, during her girlhood, one might readily have supposed that she would develop into a woman of…
expansive heart, fond of society and diversions, and taking a part in them of more than average brilliancy. What came to pass was of course quite the contrary.”
‘As an adult Christina Rossetti was considered by many to be…
overscrupulous and excessively restrained.’ -Poetry Foundation
