From Library Journal
Edited by Harrison (Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems, Univ. Pr. of Virginia, 1990), Christina Rossetti's (1830-1894) letters in this volume provide insights into her literary and daily life, revealing a girl intent on becoming a poet. First published at 17, she went on to publish several more volumes of poetry and fictional works. The letters show a woman both typical and contradictory of her time: acquiescent and restrained but also somewhat apostolic in her opposition to secularism and a hedonistic world. She wrote mainly to family and friends, with other letters going to editors and publishers. This collection complements several scholarly efforts, including four biographies, that have appeared in the last two decades, but read her poetry for the soul of the woman, which is missing here. For literature collections.?Robert Kelly, Fort Wayne Community Schs., Ind.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The Letters of Christina Rossetti: Volume 1, 1843-1873 FROM THE PUBLISHER
These letters offer a rich portrait of the habits of mind, the sentiments, and the personal and professional relationships of an extraordinary Victorian poet who was at once eccentric and culturally representative. She openly discusses her aesthetic, social, moral, political, and religious values.
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Library Journal
Edited by Harrison (Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems, Univ. Pr. of Virginia, 1990), Christina Rossetti's (1830-1894) letters in this volume provide insights into her literary and daily life, revealing a girl intent on becoming a poet. First published at 17, she went on to publish several more volumes of poetry and fictional works. The letters show a woman both typical and contradictory of her time: acquiescent and restrained but also somewhat apostolic in her opposition to secularism and a hedonistic world. She wrote mainly to family and friends, with other letters going to editors and publishers. This collection complements several scholarly efforts, including four biographies, that have appeared in the last two decades, but read her poetry for the soul of the woman, which is missing here. For literature collections.Robert Kelly, Fort Wayne Community Schs., Ind.
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Rossetti (1830-1894) has begun to be recognized as one of the major
poetsnot just one of the major women poetsof the Victorian
era, making publication of her letters an important effort. When
complete, the set will comprise four volumes of her extant letters,
almost two-thirds of which have never been published. The first
volume holds 536 letters written during a period of 30 years, most of
them to her brothers whose confederation of artists, the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, radically expanded her social sphere.
Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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