The English poet Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) wrote poems of love, fantasy, and nature, verses for children, and devotional poetry and prose.Christina Rossetti was born on Dec. 5, 1830, in ...
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"Of all Victorian woman poets, posterity has been kindest to Christina Rossetti," wrote Mary Arseneau in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. "Her poetry has never disappeared from view, and her repu...
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The publication in 1862 of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems marked the first literary success of the Pre-Raphaelites. Since then her poetry has never lacked readers, and it has stood...
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Of all Victorian women poets, posterity has been kindest to Christina Rossetti. Her poetry has never disappeared from view, and her reputation, though it suffered a decline in the first half of the tw...
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Christina Georgina Rossetti is best known for her poetry on religious or inspirational themes. Her literary reputation has gradually increased since her death, and she has emerged as one of the finest...
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Fine writers and close friends gathered Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the passions and the prescience of Molly Ivins, the larger-than-life Texan who spent every day of her life fighting for what s...
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It's a cliché: the tough guy with the gentle touch. One of New York's recurring characters, a man's man who knows how to be sensitive with the ladies. But that was Jerry Orbach-or Lennie Brisc...
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For one thing, he says, it was simply a matter of returning a favor:
"When I first ran for governor of Iowa in 1998, many people didn't give me much of a chance. But not Hillary. She told me she'd...
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Friends and colleagues of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest peak, remembered him Friday as a dogged adventurer with a generous spirit.Hillary, who together with Nepales...
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One week before he died, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. attended a forum at the New-York Historical Society, seated in the front row of a small, crowded room as three biographers he had edited discussed...
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BET has been airing a series of shows dedicated to Vandross since Saturday [July 2] and today BET After Dark will air a special video show dedicated to the singer at 1 am (ET/PT). Oprah is streamin...
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After Barbara Epstein died of lung cancer on Friday, June 16, at the age of 77, it was natural for the large circle of people—many of whom came to know her over four decades of editing The Ne...
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Brooke Astor, the great philanthropist and 105-year hold-out among a dying breed of old New York socialites, died at her Briarcliff Manor estate yesterday afternoon.
And today, New York's newspaper...
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A little over a decade ago, Kitty Carlisle Hart was scheduled to spend the day with the writer Marie Brenner for a profile in The New Yorker.
But there was a terrible storm, on a day when the two w...
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Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Christina (Georgina) Rossetti
Remembering Molly
