Christina Rossetti

Poet

Birthday December 5, 1830

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace England

DEATH DATE Dec 29, 1894 (64)

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Numerology: 2

About

British poet known for "Goblin Market" and for the poem-turned-Christmas carol "In the Bleak Midwinter." Her complete poems were compiled in three volumes and were published (posthumously) between 1979 and 1985.

Before Fame

She was the daughter of an Italian political exile. She had three siblings, all of whom were also writers.

Trivia

She had a nervous breakdown at the age of fourteen; around the same time, she became a devout Anglo-Catholic.

Family Life

She was engaged three times, but she ultimately decided against marriage to artists James Collinson and John Brett and linguist Charles Cayley.

Associated With

She was lauded as the literary successor to renowned poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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