Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was born in Charlotte Street (now 105 Hallam Street), in London. She was an English Victorian poet. She wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems.
Christina Rossetti | |
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 Christina Georgina Rossetti | |
| Born | Christina Georgina Rossetti 5 December 1830 |
| Died | 29 December 1894 (aged 64) London, England |
| Occupation | Author, Poet |
| Literary movement | Pre-Raphaelite |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Dante Gabriel, brother |
She also oppose slavery, prostitution and cruelty to animals for humanitarian thought.
Works
She is known for her poem "Goblin Market", the "Remember" and her sonnets. She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the British Isles: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set to music by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Harold Darke and by other composers.
Her father Gabriele Rossetti was also a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, since 1824 and her mother Frances Polidori was 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.[1]
Christina was the youngest child in the family, she was a lively child and she dictated her first story to her mother before she had learned to write.[2][3]
Christina Rossetti Media
Grave of Christina Rossetti in Highgate Cemetery (West side)
The Rossetti Family by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Profile at Poets.org
- ↑ "Author Profile: Christina Rossetti," Literary Worlds, BYU.edu, Web, 19 May 2011.
- ↑ Lindsay Duguid: "Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830–1894)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: OUP, 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2018.