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Christina Rossetti was engaged to which poet?

  • James Collinson

  • Charles Dickens

  • Thomas Hardy

  • Rudyard Kipling

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Christina Rossetti was engaged to the painter and poet James Collinson. They met in 1848, and were engaged for a year before Collinson broke off the engagement. They remained friends, and Collinson was a major influence on Rossetti's early work.
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