ROSSETTI CONTEXT BIO

BORN 1830
1848 ENGAGED JAMES COLLINSON-MEMBER OF PRERAHELIATE
1850 CANCELLED ENGAGEMENT AS HE CONVERTED TO CATHOLICISM
1853 FATHER RETIRED DUE TO ILLNESS AND HER AND MUM SET UP DAY SCHOOL
1843-1848 DISMAL FINANCIAL SITU
1862 GOBLIN MARKET AND OTHER POEMS FIRST LITERARY SUCCESS
1894 DIES
inherited artistsic tendecies from father
following setting up day school-had to give it in and lived rest of her life plagued by illness
but many clmaied this psychosomatic
early 60s in love with CHARLES CAYLEY BUT REFUSED TO MARRY AS 'NOT CHRISTIAN'
all 3 rossetti women DEVOUT MEMBERS OF EVANGELICAL BRANCH CHURCH ENG
1840S DRAWN TOWARD OXFORD MOVEMENT BUT STILL RETAINED SERIOUS EVNAGELICAL NATURE
1866 after rejection of cayley lived vicariosuly through religion
70s troubled by neuralgia and emotionally
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