Christina RossettiChristina Georgina Rossetti was born in London on 5 December 1830. She was one of four children. He had two brothers, William and Dante, and a sister, Maria. All four sons 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 her, "religious temperament was closer to that of his mother." (Everett, “The Life of Christina Rossetti)Christina Rossetti, her mother and her sister were all pious members of the Church of England. In her final years, Mary became an Anglican nun. Christina's religious beliefs are evident in some of her more religious poetic writings such as "Paradise" and "Trust Me". During his life he also worked for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. It has been said that he covered the secular parts of Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon to enjoy it more. (Everett, “The Life of Christina Rossetti”)Christina never married, despite being engaged to James Collinson and courted by Charles Cayley. She broke off her engagement to Collinson because he returned to Roman Catholicism. He also ended his courtship with Cayley because she discovered he was not a Christian. His failed attempts at falling in love would later prove to be a major theme in his works. The last years of Christina Rossetti's life were characterized by a "relaxed lyrical power" in her works...... middle of paper ...... ian Poetry. West Virginia University Press. 1997.vol. 35, no. 1. Christian allegory and subversive poetics: Christina Rossetti's “The Prince's Progress” re-examined. 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 problems in Christina Rossetti's cantilena”. The Victorian Web. 15 March 2007. 2 March 2012. .“Literature: theme”. Annenberg Student. 2012. 2 Mar 2012. .“A materialist aesthetics and a materialist hermeneutics”. Ohio University Press and Swallow Press. 2012. March 2 2012. .