What accomplishments and recognitions has Christina Rossetti received?

Answer 1

At age 31, she published her first anthology of poems. It gained much praise by other author's of the day. The title poem "Goblin Market" is her best known work and has been the subject of a great deal of analysis. However, when she died in 1894 of cancer, her popularity faded along with many other Victorian works. It wasn't until the 1920s that her work was rediscovered and she was placed among the ranks of Victorian canon.

Answer 2

Christina Rossetti left school at 14 after a mental breakdown due to the deterioration of her father's health and financial difficulties.

Both Rossetti and her mother both became seriously interested in Anglo-Catholisism and Rossetti's devotion to her faith saw her engaged and parted from two potential husbands (both on creative career paths).

She was a volunteer worker from 1859-1870 for the "fallen women" - former prostitutes. She had been a writer since she was seven years old and had her first work published before her 31st birthday. She continued to write for the rest of her life and maintained a large circle of friends and social life. She was an regular volunteer at ex-prostitute homes.

Answer 3

• When she was 14, she sufferred a nervous breakdown and left school.
• This was followed by bouts of depression and related illness
• She was engaged to two men but never married because of religious reasons.
• She suffered from Graves disease
• In 1893, she developed cancer and died the following year, 29 December 1894.
• She was most famous for her poem 'Goblin Market', which Rossetti claimed was a children's poem, however, it has been found to contain sexual imagery

Answer 4

She died on 29th December 1894 from cancer.

Answer 5

Christina Rossetti was born on December 5, 1830.

Answer 6

she was sexually abused by her dad.

she had one sister and two brothers.

Answer 7

England.