Christina Georgina Rossetti

5 December 1803 - 29 December 1870 / London

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1803– 29 December 1870) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". 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 II and features in several of his paintings.


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