Christina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote lots of poems, about lots of different themes. Her most famous poem was Goblin Market.

·        She was born 5th December 1830, in London.

·        She had two brothers and a sister and her father was actually an Italian poem.

·        When she was 14 she suffered from mental problems and left school.

·        In her teen years she, her mother and sister became Anglo Catholics.

·        In her late teens she was engaged to a painter called James Collinson however their engagement ended because he was a Catholic. This was also the reason for her breaking up with Charles Cayley, later in her life.

·        Rossetti published her first poem when she was 18 it was published in the athenaeum magazine. She received lots of praise for this poem.

·        The poem she wrote was called Goblin Market and it was one of her most famous poems. Although it seemed like a simple poem, it highlighted temptation to sin, in Victorian lives.

·        She later wrote a Christmas poem, entitled “In the Bleak Midwinter”, this poem became famous after her death mainly, as it was used by composers as a Christmas carol.

·        Throughout her life she wrote poems however she changed the target of her poem, as she started writing children’s poetry.

·        Also she helped in a local charity, helping women get back on track with their lives.

·        Although she did write for children, she did write many feminist’s poems and she was opposed to suffering of all kinds, slavery, war and cruelty to animals.

·        In her later life she suffered from Graves’s disease.

·        In 1893 she got cancer and she died on the 29th December 1894, she was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

·        Rossetti especially became popular after the 1970’s, as feminist scholars began discovering and talking about her work.