About the book: year / According to contemporaries, Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) was endowed with that strict, spiritual beauty that speaks of dignity and inner strength. This is confirmed by the portrait made by her brother, the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This is evidenced by a number of extraordinary actions that this woman performed. Twice she received a marriage proposal - and twice on the eve of the wedding she decisively broke off the engagement. Not paying attention to the gossip, she openly helped fallen women, and during the Crimean War she worked as a nurse in a hospital, caring for the wounded. In the last years of her life, being seriously ill, Christina Rossetti became a virtual recluse, completely devoting herself to God..