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The Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com TheFamilyLettersofChristinaGeorginaRossetti ChristinaGeorginaRossetti,WilliamMichaelRossetti &RVARD 3LLEGE (BRARY The Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti &n&€A&?U& u4v^/?r? L^Wi<fe'. diem/* The Family Letters of . Christina Georgina Rossetti With some Supplementary Letters and Appendices Edited by William Michael Rossetti She standi there patient, nerved with inner might, Indomitable in her feebleness, Her face and will athirst against the light. LONDON BROWN, LANGHAM & Co., Ltd. 78 NEW BOND STREET MCMT1II HARVARD COLLEGE LlBRARY APPROPRlATlON FOR DUPLlCATE BOOKS Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, bread street hill, lc, and bungay, suffolk. THESE LETTERS IT CHRISTINA ROSSETTI ARE INSCRIBED BY HER BROTHER TO THE MEMORY OF OUR MOTHER TO WHOM HER OWN BOOKS WERE CONSTANTLY DEDICATED PREFACE The object aimed at in this volume is to present a selection from the family-letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti, supplemented by a very few letters of hers addressed to persons out of the family, and by a quite moderate number of those addressed to herself — as for instance by her brother Dante Gabriel. The total number of letters now extant, addressed to herself, is truly small ; for throughout her life her ordinary practice was to destroy such missives as soon as read and answered. On the other hand it seems probable that a very considerable number of letters written by herself to a variety of persons are still in being; for she was a highly punctual corre spondent, and, from an early period of her life, there were many who regarded her with predilection, and who thought her likely to do something of note, and it may be surmised that several of these have preserved what she wrote. To letters of this miscellaneous kind I have not had access, save in the rarest instances, and therefore the present collection is practically, though not absolutely, limited to family-correspondence. Some readers will probably think that I have admitted into my volume various letters the interest of which is extremely slender. As to this I can only say that, slender or not, they appear to me admis sible, as tending to define and complete the picture of my sister's mind and feelings ; also that I have excluded many letters — perhaps a good deal more than the number here given — which I acknowledge to be (more or less) below the requisite standard for publication. From the letters here printed I have omitted a large number of passages which the public could obviously not care for: and this vii viii PREFACE although it seems to me that letters read better when uncurtafled, even if some portions of them may have very little to plead for themselves. Are the letters, taken as a whole, interesting or uninteresting? Do they relate to important or to unimportant matters ? Of this I must leave the reader to judge. My own view is that Christina Rossetti, by her work in poetry and authorship, made herself interest ing to a great number of persons ; and that anything which tends to show forth her genuine self, her personality and tone of mind and feeling, cannot therefore be totally insignificant. Nothing could evince these more perfectly than her family-letters da I am certain that I here set before readers a beautiful and lovable character ; and, as this is the character of a person widely cherished for her writings, and even intensely valued by many lovers of poetry and many re ligious devotees, I await with some confidence the verdict which may be passed upon my compilation. The correspondence in my collection, belonging to the earlier period of Christina's life, is rather scanty, owing to the fact that eighteen of her letters, of dates ranging from 1845 to 1854, are now the property of her sympathetic biographer Mr. Mackenzie Bell, and are thus not at my disposal ; moreover two or three of her family- letters, of later date, have been published in Mr. Bell's book. Besides all these, the letters by my sister printed in the Rossetti Papers, 1862 to 1870 (Sands & Co., 1903), and (with one exception) those addressed to her by Dante Rossetti included in the volume of his Family-Letters (Ellis, 1895), are not reproduced in the present collection. It will be found that literary matters, and also religious convictions, form an element in the correspondence here published. By far its chief constituent however is family affection, of which the wanr glow can be felt incessantly renewed throughout. It is mingled with a constant tone of courteous considerateness, and even definite polite ness, more than one would consider essential in family-letters ; for Christina — as I have had occasion to say elsewhere — was rather punc tiliously polite from her early girlhood onwards, and she saw no occasion for stinting this quality to members of her family, while she PREFACE be gave it in full measure to other people. Brightness as well as ever- present depth of feeling is vividly apparent, along with many neat, sprightly, and engaging turns of expression. I am conscious that every now and then the letters contain some phrase not only of affection but likewise of commendation to myself — what I was or what I did. If I ought to have cut out these passages, I must apologize for leaving them in. My motive for so doing is too obvious to bear exposition. To have earned, or to have received, the praise of such a woman as Christina Rossetti, is a thing which no man would prefer to hide under a bushel. Apart from the personal and predominant motive for leaving these passages on record, it may truly be said that the excision of them would have diminished the completeness of the self-portrait which my sister has presented in these letters ; for, if she loved other members of her family, she assuredly loved me as well. I have not thought it needful to reproduce in type the signatures to the letters, and the subscribing words. The signature is almost invariable, " Christina G. Rossetti," but in a very few instances there are only initials. Of the subscribing words, the most usual is " Your affectionate sister"; every now and then something more marked occurs: "Your most grateful loving sister — Your dismal sister — Truly, as well I may be, your affectionate sister — Lovingly your sister — Affectionately your old sister — Your unchangeable affectionate sister " — and the like. When I produced the complete Poetical Works of Christina Rossetti in 1904, I wrote a compendious Memoir of her uneventful and rather secluded life. I have no mind to go over the same ground now in the same sort of way : but, in order to supply a guide to the reader as to the main stages in the career which the letters indicate in a more or less scattered form, I append here a list of dates and occurrences. 1826, April. Gabriele Rossetti, a political exile from the kingdom of Naples, a poet, literary man, and professor of Italian, with his Anglo-Italian wife, Frances Mary Lavinia (Polidori), settled in No. 38 Charlotte Street, Portland Place, London, now called No. no X PREFACE Hallam Street. A memorial disk for Dante Gabriel Rossetti has recently been set up on this house : it ought to include, but does not, Christina Georgina Rossetti. 1830, December 5. Birth of Christina in the above house, follow ing the births of Maria Francesca, Dante Gabriel, and William Michael. She, like the other children, was baptized in the English Church. 1836, January. The family remove to No. 50 Charlotte Street. 1842, April. Christina writes her first verses, a birthday address to her mother. 1847. A booklet of her Verses is privately printed by her grand father, Gaetano Polidori. 1848, September. Formation of the Praeraphaelite Brotherhood, or P.R.B. 1848, Autumn. James Collinson, a painter and member of the P.R.B., originally belonging to the English Church but now a Roman Catholic, proposes marriage to Christina. She, being reluc tant to marry a Roman Catholic, declines. 1848, ? November. Collinson re-enters the English Church, renews his proposal to Christina, and is accepted. 1850, January to May. Christina publishes various poems in The Germ : her first publications, save for two pieces in T/te Athenaum. 1850, ?May. Collinson reverts to the Roman Catholic Church, and Christina cancels her engagement to him. 1851, January. The family remove to No. 38 Arlington Street (now merged in Arlington Road), Mornington Crescent, and Chris tina acts as assistant to her mother in a day-school there. 1853, Spring. Mrs. Rossetti goes with Christina to Frome, Somer set, to set up another day-school. Later on Gabriele Rossetti joins them, the rest of the family remaining in London. 1853, April and December. Deaths in London of Mrs. Rossetti's parents, Anna Maria and Gaetano Polidori. , 1854, April. I take a house for the whole family except Dante Gabriel — 45 Upper Albany Street, now 166 Albany Street. 1854, April 26. Death of Gabriele Rossetti in this house. PREFACE xi 1 86 1, February. Christina publishes in Macmillan's Magazine a poem, Uphill, which secures a good deal of attention. 1 86 1, Summer. Christina's first foreign trip with her mother and me. Paris, Coutances, and other parts of Normandy. 1862. She brings out her first published volume, Goblin Market and other Poems. 1862. She now begins to see pretty frequently Charles Bagot Cayley, a scholar, author, and linguist, translator of Dante's Divina Commedia, &c, whom she may have first met in 1847.
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