Brains and Beauty


Normally, the posts under this heading are of the living but recently I came across a drawing by D G Rossetti of his sister Christina Georgina. Before I had only ever seen pictures of her as an older woman to whom time had not, through illness and sadness, been very kind. Here is the drawing and it shows her to have been very beautiful as well as the wonderful poetess who gave us poems such as Uphill, Goblin Market, Remember and Last Prayer; not to mention being the very person who started FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on its road to fame and so helped to give it to the world.