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Christina Rossetti

2 stories mention Christina Rossetti on DeadlyCurious.

The Footnote June 25, 2026 · Charlotte Street, London

The Pre-Raphaelite Painter Whose Mother Saved the Diary of the Doctor Who Invented the Literary Vampire

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mother Frances was John William Polidori's younger sister. She preserved her brother's papers after his 1821 suicide. Her son William Michael edited the diary for publication in 1911 — almost a century after the Lake Geneva summer that had produced *The Vampyre*.

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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Charlotte Street, London

The Pre-Raphaelite Painter Whose Uncle Wrote The Vampyre and Whose Mother Preserved the Diary

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mother Frances was the sister of John Polidori — the physician who wrote *The Vampyre* at Lord Byron's Geneva villa in 1816 and committed suicide three years later. The Polidori family preserved his suppressed Geneva diary through three generations until Rossetti's brother William Michael edited it for publication in 1911.

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