Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as William Michael Rossetti and Maria Francesca Rossetti. Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was an Italian poet and a political asylum seeker from Naples, and their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori.

Rossetti was born in London and educated at home by her mother. In the 1840's her family was stricken with severe financial difficulties due to the deterioration of her father's physical and mental health, and when she was 14, Rossetti herself suffered a nervous breakdown, which in succeeding years was followed by periodic bouts of depression and related illness. It was during this period of Rossetti's life that she, along with her mother and sister, became seriously invested in the Anglo-Catholic movement that was part of the Church of England, and this religious devotion played a major role in Rossetti's personal life for the rest of her life. In her late teens she became engaged to the painter James Collinson, but this courtship eventually ended because of religious differences (Collinson reverted back to Catholicism). Later she became involved with the linguist Charles Cayley, but ultimately did not marry him either because of religious reasons.

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"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank" - Christina G. Rossetti
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"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank" - Christina G. Rossetti
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"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank" - Christina G. Rossetti http://tr.im/FT4J
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. --CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. --CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
RT @dahara: The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back. ~ Christina Rossetti
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RT @dahara: The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back. ~ Christina Rossetti

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