Christina Rossetti and IllustrationReaders do not always take into account how books that combine image and text make their meanings. But for the Pre Raphaelite poet Christina Rossetti, such considerations were central. Christina Rossetti and Illustration maps the production and reception of Rossettis illustrated poetry, devotional prose, and work for children, both in the authors lifetime and in posthumous twentieth century reprints. Lorraine Janzen Kooistras reading of Rossettis