Excerpt from Christina Rossetti, Poet and Woman: Academisch Proefschrift Ter Verkrijging Van Den Graad Van Doctor in De Letteren En Wijsbegeerte Aan De Universiteit Van Amsterdam Op Gezag Van Den Rector-Magnificus Dr. P. Zeeman, Hoogleeraar in De Faculteit Der Wis-En Natuurkunde Mr. George Saintsbury in his Nineteenth Century Literature, chapter VI, says: 'miss Rossetti has no superior among Englishwomen who have the gift of Iiterature'. Yet she is comparatively little known. Her melodious verse, which expresses the thoughts and feelings of an entirely pure mind, has but few readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.