Learning Not To Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti

by Kathleen Jones

Book Overview

Christina was the youngest of the four Rossetti children, born in England to Italian parents. Although she and her brother, the artist Dante Gabriel, were known as the 'two storms', Christina's passionate nature was curbed in a way that her brother's was not, as she submitted to the social and religious pressures that lay so heavily on Victorian women. Like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she suffered the tyranny of a loving family. Her sister Maria's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1916475019
• ISBN13: 9781916475014
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Book Mill
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"