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London: Catholic Literature Association, 1933.

CHRISTINA Georgina Rossetti, that daughter of the Tractarian Movement who, as a devotional poet, 'has not her equal in the English language,' says Sir Edmund Gosse in his History of English Literature, was born on December 5, 1830, at 38, Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, the youngest of a family of four gifted children.

Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, an Italian scholar and patriot, had been, as a young man, Secretary in the Department of Public Instruction at Rome, and afterwards Curator of the Bronzes in the Museo Borborico in his native city of Naples. At that time General Murat, the husband of Napoleon's youngest sister Caroline, was King of Naples, and Gabriele Rossetti, as an ardent supporter of the Napoleonic regime, was on a footing of friendship with the members of the Buonaparte family, among them Princess Christina Buonaparte, who became by her marriage Lady Dudley Stuart, and was afterwards the godmother of Christina Rossetti.

After the downfall of Napoleon and the flight, of Murat, Ferdinand, the Bourbon King of

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Rossetti, Christina 1830–1894

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(Full name Christina Georgina Rossetti; also wrote under the pseudonym Ellen Alleyn) English poet, essayist, nonfiction writer, and author of juvenile fiction and children's poetry.

The following entry presents an overview of Rossetti's career through 2004.

INTRODUCTION

Although she wrote across several genres, Rossetti is regarded as one of the finest English poets of the nineteenth century. Closely associated with Pre-Raphaelitism—an artistic and literary movement that aspired to recapture the vivid pictorial qualities and sensual aesthetics of Italian religious painting before the year 1500—Rossetti was equally influenced by the religious conservatism and asceticism of the Church of England. Her best known work is the titular poem from her collection Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), a poem ostensibly written for children which is nonetheless replete with seemingly adult thematic imagery. Rossetti's verse often co-opted juvenile literary forms—such as fairy

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In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

It’s hardly applicable to a New Zealand Christmas (as I type this, the sun is shining, the strawberries and raspberries are ripening, and I’m planning a Christmas dinner which includes fresh cherries and salad straight from the garden) but, with its haunting melody and evocative portrayal of the contrast between the lowly circumstances of Christ’s Incarnation and the glories of His heavenly kingdom and coming reign, this is nonetheless one of my favourite carols. Written by Rossetti some time before 1872 in response to a request from ‘Scribner’s Monthly’ magazine for a Christmas poem, ‘In the Bleak Mid-Winter’ gained fame only after her death, when it appeared in the 1906 English Hymnal with a setting by Gustav Holst (1874-1934, most famous for his ‘Planets’ Suite).

Born in London to a family of Italian immigrants, Christina’s brothers Gabriel Dante and William would gain fame as painters in the avant