Christina Rossetti: References & Edit History

Mackenzie Bell, Christina Rossetti: A Biographical and Critical Study (1898, reissued 1973); Lona Mosk Packer, Christina Rossetti (1963); Georgina Battiscombe, Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life (1981); and Kathleen Jones, Learning Not To Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti (1991), are primarily biographies. Critical analyses of her writing include Dolores Rosenblum, Christina Rossetti: The Poetry of Endurance (1986); David A. Kent (ed.), The Achievement of Christina Rossetti (1987), a collection of essays; Antony H. Harrison, Christina Rossetti in Context (1988); and Katherine J. Mayberry, Christina Rossetti and the Poetry of Discovery (1989). Edna Kotin Charles, Christina Rossetti: Critical Perspectives, 1862–1982 (1985), surveys critical responses to her poetry over 120 years.