Christina Rossetti [SEP] place of death
Early life and education.
Christina Rossetti was born in Charlotte Street (now 105 Hallam Street), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, since 1824 and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori. She had two brothers and a sister: Dante Gabriel became an influential artist and poet, and William Michael and Maria both became writers. Christina, the youngest, was a lively child. She dictated her first story to
1819).
His daughter Frances (Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, 27 April 1800 – 8 April 1886) in 1826 married exiled Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti. They had four children, Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti. After Gabriele's death in 1854, Frances quickly burned the remaining copies of his book "Il Mistero dell' Amor Platonico del Medio Evo". Frances herself died in 1886 and was buried in the family plot at Highgate Cemetery.
Maria (1827–1876)