{"id":433,"date":"2012-10-12T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2012-10-12T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T08:00:39","slug":"biblical-reflections-of-christina-rossetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/10\/12\/biblical-reflections-of-christina-rossetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical reflections of Christina Rossetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_516\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/09\/rossetti.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-516\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-516\" title=\"Letter and Spirit, by Christina Rossetti\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/09\/rossetti.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/09\/rossetti.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/09\/rossetti-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter and Spirit : notes on the Commandments. Christina Rossetti, London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1883]. New College Library, Unclassified Sequence, C5\/b5<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At this week&#8217;s Biblical Studies <a title=\"School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh - Seminars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/divinity\/news-events\/lectures-seminars\" target=\"_blank\">Research Seminar in the School of Divinity<\/a>, the speaker is\u00a0 Dr Alison Jack,\u00a0 on\u201cReading the Parable of the Prodigal Son with Christina Rossetti\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Down in the depths of New College Library&#8217;s Stack II, I found this slim volume by Christina Rossetti, <em>Letter and Spirit, or, Notes on the Commandments<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Although better known in the twentieth century for her poetry such as <em>Goblin Market<\/em> and <em>A Birthday<\/em>, and for her associations with the Pre-Raphaelite group of painters and writers,\u00a0 in her later life Christina Rossetti also produced more sombre devotional writings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; At this week&#8217;s Biblical Studies Research Seminar in the School of Divinity, the speaker is\u00a0 Dr Alison Jack,\u00a0 on\u201cReading the Parable of the Prodigal Son with Christina Rossetti\u201d. Down in the depths of New College Library&#8217;s Stack II, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/10\/12\/biblical-reflections-of-christina-rossetti\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[24,25,30,57,131,135,187],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-6Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}