1894

Christina Rossetti

Poet in the Pre-Raphaelite style. Sister to Dante; family details are given there. Born at 38 Charlotte Street. Engaged three times but never married; at least two of them were rejected due to 'religious differences'. Best known work: "In the bleak mid-winter". Died 30 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury.

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Christina Rossetti

Here lived and died Christina Georgina Rossetti, poetess. Born 1830 : died 1...

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Edward de Vere

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Walter de la Mare

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Henry Scott Holland

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Isaac Rosenberg

Poet and painter. Born Bristol of Lithuanian parents. A poet of WW1. Critical of the war but enlisted because he needed employment. Killed in the trenches of France.

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