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Christina ​Rossetti has a secure place alongside Emily Brontë and Elizabeth Barrett Browning as one of the three great women poets in nineteenth-century England. But her life is much less known than either Brontë's or Browning's, and so this biography – the first in more than two decades, and drawing upon hitherto unpublished materials – is especially welcome. Her life, as Georgina Battiscombe makes clear, was a divided one, and, always excepting the fact of her genius, not untypical of the Victorian age. The obligations of daily life – which she chose not to struggle against – to her widowed mother and to her flamboyant, ill-fated poet and painter brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, thwarted her fulfillment as a woman. Two suitors were turned away, and ultimately she sank into a classic invalidism, a devoted daughter and sister, consoled by her religion. But out of this divided, constricted life came several of the great lyric poems of the century.
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Christina ​Rossetti has a secure place alongside Emily Brontë and Elizabeth Barrett Browning as one of the three great women poets in nineteenth-century England. But her life is much less known than either Brontë's or Browning's, and so this biography – the first in more than two decades, and drawing upon hitherto unpublished materials – is especially welcome. Her life, as Georgina Battiscombe makes clear, was a divided one, and, always excepting the fact of her genius, not untypical of the Victorian age. The obligations of daily life – which she chose not to struggle against – to her widowed mother and to her flamboyant, ill-fated poet and painter brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, thwarted her fulfillment as a woman. Two suitors were turned away, and ultimately she sank into a classic invalidism, a devoted daughter and sister, consoled by her religion. But out of this divided, constricted life came several of the great lyric poems of the century.
Mrs Battiscombe's sympathetic portrait is anything but somber, and she surrounds Christina with many of the leading artistic figures of the period – William Morris, Whistler, Swinburne, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – to make her book exceptionally interesting to read.