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She was born in London on 5th December and died there on 29th December aged She had two brothers and a sister including her famous Pre-Raphaelite brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She was educated at home chiefly by her mother and read widely and was particularly impressed by the work of John Keats. The house had a steady stream of visitors including revolutionaries, scholars and artists of all types.

Christina and Dante Gabriel were always seen as the passionate ones in the family. Christina becomes involved with religion and worships at Christ Church, Albany Street, where services reflected the Oxford Movement ideals.

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She also begins to collect postage stamps which was unusual for a female at the time. He reverts to Anglicanism and she accepts him. Again, this is short lived as it is not a success. Ironically one of her best loved poems today was roundly drubbed by Ruskin who claimed it was unpublishable. Algernon Swinburne and Alfred Lord Tennyson are both impressed.