SOURCE: "Christina Georgina Rossetti," in The Dial, Chicago, Vol. XVIII, No. 206, January 16, 1895, pp. 37-9.

In the following unsigned essay, the critic praises three of Rossetti's volumes of poetry, comparing her literary achievement to that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

The last day of the year just ended brought news of the death of Miss Rossetti, the youngest of mat famous quartette of brothers and sisters of whom Mr. W. M. Rossetti is now left the sole survivor. Maria Francesca, who died in 1876, was the oldest of the four, having first seen the light in 1827. Then came Dante Gabriel in 1828, William Michael in 1829, and Christina Georgina in 1830. Miss Rossetti gave early evidence of her poetic talents, as is shown by the privately-printed volume of Verses, dated 1847. In 1850, with her brothers, she wrote for the famous Germ, over the pseudonymous signature of "Ellen Alleyne." It was not, however, until 1862 that she...