Rossetti, Maria Francesca (1827–1876)
Rossetti, Maria Francesca (1827–1876)
English author. Born 1827; died 1876; dau. of Gabriele Rossetti (professor of Italian at King's College, London) and Lavinia Polidori; sister of Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), and William Michael Rossetti (1829–1906).
Wrote A Shadow of Dante (1870); became an Anglican nun (1874).
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