Mary Seton Watts

CFT 's mother, born Etheldred St Barbe , died after the birth of her fourth daughter, Eleanor , in May 1851, and her husband re-married.

CFT 's sister who became by marriage Mary Watts grew up to be an artist who in a retrospective of her work at the Watts Gallery in 1998 was called the unsung heroine of the...

CFT 's portrait was painted by her sister Mary at least twice, in 1870 and again in 1877. In the spring of 1870 Christina chaperoned her younger sister on her first visit to George Frederic Watts

Barrington and Watts had a host of mutual friends, among them Leighton and other artists, and the US patron Mary Mead .Watts's courtship of Mary Fraser-Tytler put his friendship with EB under strain....

Owing to CFT 's connections she featured in portraits by her artist sister and in photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron .

Mary Watts , in her own biography, set out to demolish and replace that of EB : in print she recorded that she did not read it till six years after publication, when she was...

CFT 's first publication was the short-story collection Sweet Violet, and Other Stories, illustrated by MFT, probably her sister.

CFT visited Germany and Italy with some of her family, including her sister Mary .