Christina Rossetti was the youngest of four children. Like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she suffered the tyranny of a loving family, being restrained by the "police surveillance" of her sister Maria and the goodness of their mother. Although she and her brother Dante Gabriel were known as the "two storms", she curbed her passionate nature, and a love of life was replaced in her work initially by the bitterness of the lonely and ultimately by the conviction of the religious. Comparing her situation with that of contemporaries Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson, this biography examines the effects of Victorian social and religious convention on the life and work of the "High Priestess of Pre-Raphaelitism".
- ISBN10 0312070179
- ISBN13 9780312070175
- Publish Date 1 April 1992 (first published March 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 November 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 252
- Language English