Christina Georgina Rossetti born in London, England on December 5, 1830.Christina was the youngest child of Gabriele and Frances Rossetti. Christina’s father Gabriele was an Italian political exile, poet, and was a professor at King’s College in 1831. Christina’s Father became blind and resigned from teaching. He died in 1854. Christina’s mother, Frances was a governess, an Anglican Christian, and a teacher. Her mother died in 1886. Christina has one sister named Maria Francesca and two brothers named Gabriel Charles Dante and William Michael, who are gifted and all became writers. Maria, the oldest child wrote about “Dante Alighieri” and she became an Anglican nun. Christina’s brother Gabriel Charles was known by Dante Gabriel instead. Gabriel is an artist and painter. Christina’s brother William Michael was one of the co-founders of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Christina was educated by her mother for she was only home school. She speaks Italian and English and read French, Latin, and German.

Christina became close to her mother and helped her with “a day school at Frome- Selwood, in Somerset.” Christina started to write poems at the age 7 and the very first poem verse that she wrote was written and printed was in 1842. The things that Christina writes about was things that she felt were meaningful to her and others, such as nursery rhymes. Christina’s childhood was not much been said, but she spent most of her life with her mother and her social life was with her brothers and to the people that she was introduced to were the only ones that she social with. Her life was not the same when she was “sexually abused by her father.” Christina was able to erase the memories of it ever happened to her. Christina and her family started to have financial problems after her father had died in 1854. Christina followed her older sister Maria steps and her mother steps and became a devout Anglican.

Christina seems to be a very quiet person, but what she believed in made her volunteer to work for the “St. Mary Magdalene “house of charity” in Highgate, a refuge for former prostitutes” from 1859 to 1870’s. Christina traveled to Normandy and Paris in 1861. The very first published poem that Christina wrote was “Goblin Market,” which was about sexual imageries.

There were other poems that she wrote, which are:

A Pageant in 1881,

Common Place a book of short stories in 1870,

Sing –Song: a nursery rhyme book in 1872,

And Speaking Likeness a book of tales for children in 1874.

There are a total of fifty six poems that Christina wrote.

She fell in love with James Collinson, a minor Pre-Raphaelite painter and was engaged with him. However, their time together was short for Christina broke off the engagement with him due to his religion as a Roman Catholic. She later was in loved with Charles Bagot Clayley, a linguist. Christina did not last long with him either. According to her brother William, the reason why she did not want to marry Charles is because he did not have any strong religious faith. Even though, Christina never married and had any children and she continued to write her poems. In 1880, Christina became very ill and suffered a “Graves disease, a thyroid disordered.” After suffering from this sickness, she developed cancer in 1893. One year had passed and things did not go well for her and “died on December 29, 1894.”