Identifier: personalsketches00gris (find matches)
Title: Personal sketches of recent authors
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Griswold, Hattie Tyng, 1840-1909
Subjects: Authors, English Authors, American
Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. THE Rossetti family, with their genius and theirstriking individuality, have occupied a largespace in current literary history. There has been afascination connected with the very name, with itsforeign associations, and mysterious hints as to the conspiracy which had placed them upon Englishsoil. Gabriele Rossetti, the father of Dante Gabriel,William Michael, Mary Francesca, and Christina Ros-setti, was born in Vasto, on the Adriatic coast, inthe kingdom of Naples in 1783. Secret societieswere a part of the very life of the Italians at thatperiod of their history, the only vent for their patriot-ism, and almost the only stirring interest of theirlives. Proscribed by the government, they flourishedmore and more, and every thoughtful and daringsoul was irresistibly drawn into their communion.Gabriele Rossetti was no exception. Literature andpatriotism were the interests of his life. Proscribedwhile still young for Carbonarism, he left Italy, andse

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