About Christina Rossetti | Academy of American Poets

On December 29, 1894, Christina Rossetti, English poet, died at the age of 64. From the article:

"Christina Rossetti
1830–1894

On December 5, 1830, Christina Rossetti was born in London, one of four children of Italian parents. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti; her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti also became a poet and a painter. Rossetti's first poems were written in 1842 and printed in her grandfather's private press. In 1850, under the pseudonym Ellen Alleyne, she contributed seven poems to the Pre-Raphaelite journal The Germ, which had been founded by her brother William Michael and his friends.

Rossetti is best known for her ballads and her mystic religious lyrics, and her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling. Rossetti's best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry. The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, appeared in 1866 followed by Sing-Song, a collection of verse for children, in 1872 (with illustrations by Arthur Hughes).

By the 1880s, recurrent bouts of Graves' disease ended Rossetti's attempts to work as a governess. While the illness restricted her social life, she continued to write poems, compiled in later works such as A Pageant and Other Poems (1881). Rossetti also wrote religious prose works, such as Seek and Find (1879), Called To Be Saints (1881) and The Face of the Deep (1892). In 1891, Rossetti developed cancer, of which she died in London on December 29, 1894. Rossetti's brother, William Michael, edited her collected works in 1904, but the Complete Poems were not published before 1979.

Selected Bibliography

Poetry

Goblin Market, and Other Poems (Macmillan and Co., 1862)
Prince's Progress and Other Poems (Macmillan and Co., 1866)
Sing-Song: A Nursery-Rhyme Book (George Routledge & Sons, 1872)
A Pageant and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1881)
The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on The Apocalypse (Macmillan and Co., 1892)
Verses (E & J. B. Young & Co., 1893)
New Poems (Macmillan, 1896)
The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti. With Memoir and Notes & Comments. (Macmillan and Co., 1904)
Selected Poems (Macmillan, 1970)
Complete Poems (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1979)
Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti: A Variorum Edition (LSU Press, 1990)

Prose

Commonplace and Other Short Stories (F. S. Ellis, 1870)
Seek and Find (Pott, Young, & Co., 1879)
Called to be Saints: The Minor Festivals (The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1881)
Selected Prose of Christina Rossetti (Macmillan, 1998)

Letters

The Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti (C. Scribner's, 1908)
Letters of Christina Rossetti: 1843-1873 (University of Virginia Press, 1997)
Letters of Christina Rossetti: 1874-1881 (University of Virginia Press, 1999)."