rossetti was educated at home by her mother and father, who had her study religious works, classics, fairy tales and novels. rossetti delighted in the works of keats, scott, ann radcliffe and matthew lewis. the influence of the work of dante alighieri, petrarch and other italian writers filled the home and would have a deep impact on rossetti's later writing. their home was open to visiting italian scholars, artists and revolutionaries. the family homes in bloomsbury at 38 and later 50 charlotte street were within easy reach of madam tussauds, london zoo and the newly opened regent's park, which she visited regularly; in contrast to her parents, rossetti was very much a london child, and, it seems, a happy one.