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Author Series 10 - Poet Christina Georgina Rossetti

Author Series 10 - Poet 

Christina Georgina Rossetti 

• Born - 5 December 1830 

•  English poet - wrote various romantic, devotional, and children's poems. 

• Most famous poems - "Goblin Market" and "Remember" .

•  Part of Pre-Raphaelite group

•  She contributed to the literary magazine, The Germ, Under the pseudonym "Ellen Alleyne" 

• Swinburne in 1883 dedicated 'A Century of Roundels' to Christina Rossetti.

• Rossetti's Christmas poem "In the Bleak Midwinter" became widely known in the English-speaking world after her death, when it was set as a Christmas carol. 

•  Her poem "Love Came Down at Christmas" (1885) has also been widely arranged as a carol.

• She died in Bloomsbury on 29 December 1894
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