Christina Rossetti : A Biography

Why is Christina Rossetti, probably the major woman poet of Victorian Britain, so invisible today?

This is the central question addressed in this biography.

Rossetti, author of Goblin Market , My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird and In the Deep Midwinter has often been overshadowed by her brother Dante Gabriel.

Drawing on many sources, this study enables the reader to piece together a more complete picture of this woman whose nature was passionate and contradictory.