Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was an English poet who wrote romantic, devotional and children’s poems. Her brother was the leading pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti and her two further siblings also became writers.
She began writing at age 7 but it was not until she was 31 before her first work was published-Goblin Market and Other Poems which gained much critical praise.
The title poem is Rossetti’s best known work and underneath the casual reader’s first glance is a nursery rhyme but underneath lies a complex multi-layered work.