The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1: 1843-1873. Ed. by ANTONY H. HARRISON. (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1997. lxii + 458 pp. $49.50.
The trajectory of Christina Rossetti's reputation is quite remarkable. Thirty years ago she was a minor figure who existed in the shadow of her more famous brothers, Dante Gabriel and William Michael. The publication of the scholarly edition of her poetry by R. W. Crump, which began ...