Poet Christina Georgina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and scholar, and Frances Polidori Rossetti. She was the youngest of her Italian immigrant parents' four children; one of her elder brothers, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, would become a well-known poet and painter as well. Their mother, who had trained as a governess, educated all of the children at home until the boys went on to university; Christina and her sister Maria received all of their education at home. All of the Rossetti siblings would become profoundly involved in arts and scholarship as adults. When Christina was thirteen, her father's illness left him unable to teach or write, as he had done...
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