Possession (Byatt novel)
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Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by English writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize for Fiction. The novel explores the postmodern concerns of similar novels, which are oft
First edition (UK)
Christina Rossetti
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Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English writer of romantic and devotional poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember".
Possession (Byatt novel)
…more consonant with the themes expressed by Ash, as well as Tennyson's having been poet-laureate to Queen Victoria) and Christabel LaMotte (based on Christina Rossetti), as uncovered by present-day academics Roland Michell and Maud Bailey. Following a trail of clues from letters and journals, they collaborate to uncover…
Portrait by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1848
The birth place of Rossetti
Christina Rossetti, by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Detail from Ecce Ancilla Domini, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti