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Article: The Letters of Christina Rossetti.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. 1874-1881. Ed. by Anthony H.
Harrison. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1999.
xliv+331 pp. $60.
Sadness and loss dominate this volume of Christina Rossetti's letters. All hopes of association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had long been dispelled, but so too had any hope of marriage and children, and even the first flush of excitement over publication had dwindled and dimmed. Christina withdrew into a much more limited social world, a world mainly comprising her family and some close friends. Disease and decay threatened. She was struck down by a near-fatal bout of Graves' disease and her ...
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