Christina Rossetti was born in London in December 1830. Two of her bothers were members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and as a young woman Rossetti posed for some of their paintings, most famously perhaps for The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849).
Under the pseudonym, Ellen Alleyne, some of Rossetti’s early poems were published in The Germ, the Pre-Raphaelite journal edited by William, however, it wasn’t until she was 31 years old that her most famous collection Goblin Market and Other Poems was published to much critical acclaim. Rossetti was an intensely religious individual and much of her work is influenced by these beliefs. She also spent much of her life volunteering at a home for prostitutes in London. She died in 1894 after developing terminal cancer the year before.
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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood refers to the group of young artists who rebelled against the artificial and mannered approach to painting taught at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. They advocated a return to the simplicity and sincerity of subject and style found in an earlier age. Gradually they formed a youthful movement with other like-minded individuals seeking to modernise art by reviving the practices of the Middle Ages.
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