Description

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TQ2886NW
798-1/12/1576

CAMDEN
SWAIN'S LANE (west side)
Tomb of Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall in Highgate (Western) Cemetery

(Formerly listed as Tomb of Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall, SWAIN'S LANE, previously listed as: HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY Graves of Christina Rossetti & Elizabeth Siddall)

14/05/74

GV
II
Headstone. Late C19. Marble. Inscribed to the memory of Christina Rossetti, poet, theological writer and sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter, and Elizabeth Siddall, the latter's wife - whom he buried with a manuscript of his earlier poems.

HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1869, with growing ambitions as a poet and regretting the burial of his only complete earlier volume, Rossetti had them exhumed secretly at dead of night; the volume, entitled "Poems" was published in 1870.

Listing NGR: TQ2837986960

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27086367

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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