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Christina Rossetti Timeline
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Christina Rossetti was born
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her first verses were written and printed by her grandfather
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she is ingaged with James Collinson, but breaks it off because he converts to Catholicism
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Has seven poems published in The Germ under the pseudonym Ellen Alleyne
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Attempts to support the family by starting a day school at Frome,
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her father died
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she moved back to london
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Rossetti's best-known collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), established her fame as a significant voice in Victorian poetry
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Refuses Charles Cayley's hand because he is not a Christian, though she is in love with him
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Commonplace and Other Short Stories published
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recurrent bouts of Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, had made Rossetti an invalid, and ended her attempts to work as a governess.
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Christina Rossetti died of cancer