Rossetti Chronology

Rossetti: Chronology

1830: Born

1848: Song (WIADMD)

Engaged to James Collinson

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded.

1849: Remember

1850: Breaks off engagement with James Collinson when he converts to Catholicism.

1854: From the Antique

Echo

1856: Shut Out

1857: Winter: My Secret

In the Round Tower at Jhansi

A Birthday

1857-8: Maude Clare

1858: Up-hill

1859: Goblin Market

Started working at St Mary Magdalene’s Penitentiary for Fallen Women until 1870, where she was known as “Sister Christina”.

1860: No Thank You John

1862: Good Friday

Publishes Goblin Market and Other Poems.

1864: Twice

1866: Publishes The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems.

Rejects marriage proposal from Charles Cayley who “was not a Christian”.

1881: Soeur Louise de la Misericorde

1894: Dies