in the later decades of her life, rossetti suffered from graves' disease, diagnosed in 1872, suffering a nearly fatal attack in the early 1870s. in 1893, she developed breast cancer and though the tumour was removed, there was a recurrence in september 1894. she died in bloomsbury on 29 december 1894 and was buried in highgate cemetery. the place where she died, in torrington square, is marked with a stone tablet.