Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was born on December 5, 1830 in London. Rossetti was home schooled by her mother. Rossetti’s family had some incredibly hard financial times, which made her suffer from a nervous breakdown. Rossetti nearly married a few times but decided to end them both because of religious differences. Rossetti began to write a awfully early age (7) but she did not publish any of her works until she was 31 years of age (which was Goblin Market and Other Poems). Many people read her poems in unlike ways (as most poems are of course). Some may see her poems are simple but that if false, they are complex and challenging. Many of her poems deal with gender roles in the Victorian period. Rossetti continued to write for most of her life. Most of Rossetti’s poems were devotional writing and poems written for children. At 63 years old, Rossetti developed caner and Grave’s disease and died the following year on December 29, 1894. In the 1970’s Rosstti’s work became widely popular.

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