Facts about Christina Rossetti

  Learn some quick facts about 

Christina Rossetti.  

 

This week’s famous poet is Christina Rossetti. Last week’s famous poet was Henry David Thoreau. 

Understanding the context of Christina Georgina Rossetti's life is key to appreciating her work. She wrote over one thousand poems, including two Christmas carols that are known in Britain. Born in London, England, to Frances Polidori and Gabriele Rossetti, she was one of four siblings.

 

Here is a list of some poems by Christina Rossetti: 

• Remember
• Fluttered Wings
• Echo
• Fata Morgana
• Eve
• A Birthday
• A Chill
• A Daughter of Eve
• When I am Dead, My Dearest

Parents and caretakers, be sure poems are child-friendly before reading them to your child or children.

Quick facts about Christina Rossetti: 

1. She was born December 5, 1830, in London, England.

2. Christina Rossetti was 64 years old when she died. She passed away on December 29, 1894, in London, England. She is buried at the family grave in the Highgate Cemetery. She died from cancer.

3. The following is one of Christina Rossetti’s poems:

 A Chill

What can lambkins do

All the keen night through?

Nestle by their woolly mother

The careful ewe.

What can nestlings do

In the nightly dew?

Sleep beneath their mother’s wing

Till day breaks anew.

If in a field or tree

There might only be

Such a warm soft sleeping-place

Found for me!

(You can print out a worksheet on this poem. You will fill in the missing words in the poem.) 

4. Christina Rossetti wrote two Christmas carols that are still sung in Britain today. She is best known for these two songs:

• Love Came Down at Christmas
• In the Bleak Midwinter

5. Christina Rossetti was educated at home by her parents. They taught her using novels, religious works, fairy tales, and other sources.

6. Here is a list of Christina Rossetti’s siblings:

• Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
• William Michael Rossetti
• Maria Francesca Rossetti

7. Christina Rossetti never married, but she had a few relationships that did not work out. She never had children.

8.  She was one of the first women to collect stamps. She started collecting stamps in 1847.

9. She wrote under the pen name Ellen Alleyne for a journal called The Germ. She started writing poems for the journal in the early 1850s.

 

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Books by Christina Rossetti: 

1. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

2. The Complete Poems by Christina Rossetti

3. Nature Poems by Christina Rossetti

Parents and caregivers, be sure the books you read to your child or children are child-friendly. 

 

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“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”—Christina Rossetti