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Born in December 5, 1830 / Died in December 29, 1894 / United Kingdom / English

Furtherreading

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Bibliographies:

  • William E. Fredeman, Pre-Raphaelitism: A Bibliocritical Study (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965), pp. 176-182.
  • Fredeman, "Christina Rossetti," in The Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research, edited by Frederic E. Faverty (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968), pp. 284-293.
  • Rebecca W. Crump, Christina Rossetti: A Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976).
  • Jane Addison, "Christina Rossetti Studies, 1974-1991: A Checklist and Synthesis," Bulletin of Bibliography, 52 (March 1995): 73-93.
Biographies:
  • Ellen A. Proctor, A Brief Memoir of Christina G. Rossetti (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1895).
  • Mackenzie Bell, Christina Rossetti: A Biographical and Critical Study (Boston: Roberts, 1898).
  • Mary F. Sandars, The Life of Christina Rossetti (London: Hutchinson, 1930).
  • Eleanor Walter Thomas, Christina Georgina Rossetti (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931).
  • Marya Zaturenska, Christina Rossetti: A Portrait with a Background (New York: Macmillan, 1949).
  • Margaret Sawtell, Christina Rossetti: Her Life and Religion (London: Mowbray, 1955).
  • Lona Mosk Packer, Christina Rossetti (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963).
  • Georgina Battiscombe, Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life (London: Constable, 1981).
  • Kathleen Jones, Learning Not to Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti (Gloucestershire: Windrush Press, 1991).
  • Frances Thomas, Christina Rossetti: A Biography (London: Virago, 1994).
  • Jan Marsh, Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography (London: Cape, 1994).
References:
  • Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (London & New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 344-367.
  • Mary Arseneau, "Incarnation and Interpretation: Christina Rossetti, the Oxford Movement, and Goblin Market," Victorian Poetry, 31 (1993): 79-93.
  • Arseneau, Antony H. Harrison, and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, eds., The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999).
  • Andrew Belsey and Catherine Belsey, "Christina Rossetti: Sister to the Brotherhood," Textual Practice, 2 (1988): 30-50.
  • Joseph Bristow, ed., Victorian Women Poets: Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti (London: Macmillan / New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
  • Jerome Bump, "Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, and Pre-Raphaelitism," Victorian Newsletter, 57 (1980): 1-6.
  • Kathryn Burlinson, "'All Mouth and Trousers': Christina Rossetti's Grotesque and Abjected Bodies," in Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virgina Blain (Houndsmills: Macmillan, 1999), pp. 292-312.
  • Burlinson, Christina Rossetti (Plymouth: Northcote House in association with the British Council, 1998).
  • Elizabeth Campbell, "Of Mothers and Merchants: Female Economics in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market," Victorian Studies, 33 (1990): 393-410.
  • Mary Wilson Carpenter, "'Eat me, drink me, love me': The Consumable Female Body in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market," Victorian Poetry, 29 (1991): 415-434.
  • Alison Chapman, The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti (Houndsmills: Macmillan, 2000; New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000).
  • Steven Connor, "'Speaking Likenesses': Language and Repetition in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market," Victorian Poetry, 22 (1984): 439-448.
  • Stuart Curran, "The Lyric Voice of Christina Rossetti," Victorian Poetry, 9 (1971): 287-299.
  • Diane D'Amico, Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gener and Time (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999).
  • D'Amico, "'Equal before God': Christina Rossetti and the Fallen Women of Highgate Penitentiary," in Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art, edited by Antony H. Harrison and Beverly Taylor (De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1992), pp. 67-83.
  • Theo Dombrowski, "Dualism in the Poetry of Christina Rossetti," Victorian Poetry, 14 (1976): 70-76.
  • Ifor B. Evans, English Poetry of the Later Nineteenth Century (London: Methuen, 1933), pp. 65-80.
  • Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry IV: 1830-1880 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1957), pp. 302-316.
  • Barbara Fass, "Christina Rossetti and St. Agnes' Eve," Victorian Poetry, 14 (1976): 33-46.
  • Mary E. Finn, Writing the Incommensurable: Kierkegaard, Rossetti, and Hopkins (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992).
  • Barbara Garlick, "Christina Rossetti and the Gender Politics of Fantasy," in The Victorian Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991), pp. 133-152.
  • Pamela K. Gilbert, "'A Horrid Game': Woman as Social Entity in Christina Rossetti's Prose," English, 41 (Spring 1992): 1-23.
  • Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 539-580.
  • Edmund Gosse, "Christina Rossetti," Century Magazine, 46 (June 1893): 211-217.
  • Eric Griffiths, "The Disappointment of Christina G. Rossetti," Essays in Criticism, 47 (April 1997): 107- 142.
  • Lila Hanft, "The Politics of Maternal Ambivalence in Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song," Victorian Literature and Culture, 19 (1991): 213-232.
  • Antony H. Harrison, "Christina Rossetti and the Romantics: Influence and Ideology," in Influence and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry, edited by G. Kim Blank and Margot K. Louis (London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993), pp. 131-149.
  • Harrison, "Christina Rossetti and the Sage Discourse of Feminist High Anglicanism," in Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power, edited by Thais E. Morgan (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990), pp. 87-104.
  • Harrison, Christina Rossetti in Context (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988).
  • Harrison, ed., "Centennial of Christina Rossetti: 1830- 1894," Victorian Poetry, 32, nos. 3-4 (1994): 201-428.
  • Constance W. Hassett, "Christina Rossetti and the Poetry of Reticence," Philological Quarterly, 65 (1986): 495-514.
  • Elizabeth K. Helsinger, "Consumer Power and the Utopia of Desire: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market," English Literary History, 58 (1991): 903-933.
  • Dawn Henwood, "Christian Allegory and Subversive Poetics: Christina Rossetti's Prince's Progress Reexamined," Victorian Poetry, 35 (1997): 83-94.
  • Kathleen Hickok, Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women's Poetry (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), pp. 197-219.
  • Terrence Holt, "'Men sell not such in any town': Exchange in Goblin Market," Victorian Poetry, 28 (1990): 51-67; republished in Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader, edited by Angela Leighton (London: Blackwell, 1996), pp. 131-147.
  • Margaret Homans, "Syllables of Velvet: Dickinson, Rossetti, and the Rhetorics of Sexuality," Feminist Studies, 11 (1985): 569-593.
  • Nilda Jimenez, The Bible and the Poetry of Christina Rossetti: A Concordance (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979).
  • David A. Kent, ed., The Achievement of Christina Rossetti (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987).
  • U. C. Knoepflmacher, "Avenging Alice: Christina Rossetti and Lewis Carroll," Nineteenth-Century Literature, 41 (1986): 299-328.
  • Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, "The Jael Who Led the Hosts to Victory: Christina Rossetti and Pre-Raphaelite Book-Making," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, new series 8 (Spring 1999): 50-68.
  • Sharon Leder and Andrea Abbott, The Language of Exclusion: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987).
  • Angela Leighton, "'Because men made the laws': The Fallen Woman and the Woman Poet," Victorian Poetry, 27 (1989): 109-127.
  • Leighton, Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart (London & New York: Harvester, 1992), pp. 118- 163.
  • Linda E. Marshall, "Mysteries beyond Angels in Christina Rossetti's 'From House to Home,'" in Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, pp. 313-324.
  • Marshall, "'Transfigured to His Likeness': Sensible Transcendentalism in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market," University of Toronto Quarterly, 63 (1994): 429-450.
  • Marshall, "What the Dead are Doing Underground: Hades and Heaven in the Writings of Christina Rossetti," Victorian Newsletter, 72 (1987): 55-60.
  • Katherine J. Mayberry, Christina Rossetti and the Poetry of Discovery (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989).
  • Jerome J. McGann, "Christina Rossetti's Poems: A New Edition and a Revaluation," Victorian Studies, 23 (1980): 237-254; republished as "Christina Rossetti's Poems," in Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader, pp. 97-113.
  • McGann, "The Religious Poetry of Christina Rossetti," Critical Inquiry, 10 (1983): 127-144.
  • Dorothy Mermin, "The Damsel, the Knight, and the Victorian Woman Poet," Critical Inquiry, 13 (1986): 64-80; republished in Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader, pp. 198-214.
  • Mermin, "Heroic Sisterhood in Goblin Market," Victorian Poetry, 21 (1983) 107-118.
  • Helena Michie, "'There is no friend like a sister': Sisterhood as Sexual Difference," English Literary History, 52 (1989): 401-421.
  • Ellen Moers, Literary Women (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976).
  • David F. Morrill, "'Twilight is Not Good for Maidens': Uncle Polidori and the Psychodynamics of Vampirism in Goblin Market," Victorian Poetry, 28 (1990): 1-16.
  • Kathy Alexis Psomiades, "Feminine and Poetic Privacy in Christina Rossetti's 'Autumn' and 'A Royal Princess,'" Victorian Poetry, 31 (1993): 187-202.
  • Psomiades, "Whose Body? Christina Rossetti and Aestheticist Femininity," in Women and British Aestheticism, edited by Psomiades and Talia Schaffer (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), pp. 101-118.
  • Joan Rees, "Christina Rossetti: Poet," Critical Quarterly, 26 (Autumn 1984): 59-72.
  • Dolores Rosenblum, Christina Rossetti: The Poetry of Endurance (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986).
  • Rosenblum, "Christina Rossetti's Religious Poetry: Watching, Looking, Keeping Vigil," Victorian Poetry, 20 (1982): 33-49; republished in Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader, pp. 114-130.
  • Linda Schofield, "Displaced and Absent Texts as Contexts for Christina Rossetti's Monna Innominata," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, new series 6 (Spring 1997): 38-52.
  • William Sharp, "Some Reminiscences of Christina Rossetti," Atlantic Monthly, 75 (June 1895): 736-749.
  • Virginia Sickbert, "Christina Rossetti and Victorian Children's Poetry: A Maternal Challenge to the Patriarchal Family," Victorian Poetry, 31 (1993): 385-410.
  • Sharon Smulders, Christina Rossetti Revisited, Twayne English Authors Series (New York: Twayne, 1996).
  • Smulders, "'A Form that Differences': Vocational Metaphors in the Poetry of Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins," Victorian Poetry, 29 (1991): 161-173.
  • Smulders, "Woman's Enfranchisement in Christina Rossetti's Poetry," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 34 (1992): 568-588.
  • Lionel Stevenson, The Pre-Raphaelite Poets (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972), pp. 78-122.
  • Deborah Ann Thompson, "Anorexia as a Lived Trope: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market," Mosaic, 24 (1991): 89-106.
  • Winston Weathers, "Christina Rossetti: The Sisterhood of Self," Victorian Poetry, 3 (1965): 81-89.
  • Joel Westerholm, "'I Magnify Mine Office': Christina Rossetti's Authoritative Voice in Her Devotional Prose," Victorian Newsletter, 84 (Fall 1993): 11-17.