Rosetti biography

English poet (–)

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December – 29 December ) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember".

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She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.

Early life and education

Christina Rossetti was born in 38 Charlotte Street (now Hallam Street), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy, since , and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician John William Polidori.^[1] She had two brothers and a sister: Dante Gabriel became an influential artist and poet, and William Michael and Maria both became writers A Very Short Biography of Christina Rossetti – Interesting ...

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