Christina RossettiChristina Georgina Rossetti was born in London on December 5, 1830. She was one of four children. She had two brothers, William and Dante, and a sister, Maria. All four children became writers and his brother Dante was also a famous painter. Christina was the youngest of four children. His father, Gabriele Rossetti, was a poet and his mother, Frances Polidori Rossetti, was deeply religious. It has been said that Christina "inherited many of her artistic tendencies from her father" (Glenn Everett. "The Life of Christina Rossetti." The Victorian Web. 1988. February 25, 2012.) and that she, "Religious temperament was closer to that of his mother. (Everett, “The Life of Christina Rossetti)Christina Rossetti, her mother, and her sister were all devout members of the Church of England. In her later years, Maria became an Anglican nun. Christina's religious beliefs are apparent in some of her most religious poetic writings such as "Paradise" and "Trust Me". During her life, she also worked for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. It is said that she covered the secular parts of Atalanta from Swinburne to Calydon in order to benefit more from it. (Everett, “The Life of Christina Rossetti”) Christina never married, despite being engaged to James Collinson and courted by Charles Cayley. She broke off the engagement with Collinson because he returned to Roman Catholicism. She also ended her courtship with Cayley because she discovered he was not a Christian. His failed attempts at love would later prove to be an important theme in his works. The last years of Christina Rossetti's life were characterized by a "slowing down of lyrical power" in her work...... middle of paper ...... Poetry ian. West Virginia University Press. 1997. Vol. 35, No. 1. Christian Allegory and Subversive Poetics: Christina Rossetti's “The Prince's Progress” Reexamined. 83-94.Jan Marsh. “Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”. Penguin Classics. 2011. February 27, 2012. .Julia Touché. “Biographical situation of Christina Rossetti in 1872”. The Victorian Web. March 15, 2007. March 2, 2012. .Julia Touché. “Contemporary Issues in Christina Rossetti’s Sing-Song.” The Victorian Web. March 15, 2007. March 2, 2012. .“Literature: Theme”. Apprentice Annenberg. 2012. March 2, 2012. “A Materialist Aesthetics and a Materialist Hermeneutics.” Ohio University Press and Swallow Press. 2012. March 2 2012. .