2 Quotes & Sayings By Christina G Rossetti
Christina G. Rossetti was born in 1834 in London, the eldest of four children. She was the daughter of William Rossetti, a family friend of Dante Gabriel Rosetti. As a child David enjoyed drawing, poetry, and the arts
She was married at the age of eighteen to painter Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, who encouraged her creative pursuits. At nineteen she began to study art seriously, but her husband's drinking led them to separate after three years of marriage. When he died in 1860 she never remarried and dedicated herself to writing and painting.