Word: rossettis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just such a neglected writer. He was the son of the London Times's erudite German music critic, Dr. Francis Hueffer (the son changed his surname to Ford after World War I), as well as a grandson of Victorian Painter Ford Madox Brown and a cousin of the Rossetti family. A precocious schoolboy, he began writing while still in his teens, but almost from the beginning he showed that the only noise he was likely to make would be in praise of others...
Prominent among the newcomers for which the anonymous compilers made way are Christina Rossetti's sentimental Christmas poem In the Bleak Midwinter...