1830 - 1894

Educated at home.

Was encouraged to write by her family.

Her teenage poems were printed by her grandfather on his own press.

She was a devout Anglican and refused two suitors on religious grounds.

Her collections of verse include Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866) and A Pageant and Other Poems (1881), and 'A Birthday', 'Remember', 'Uphill' and the Christmas carol 'In the Bleak Mid-Winter'.

Illness had rendered her an invalid by the time she was fifty.

After her death her brother W.M. Rossetti brought out an edition of her later poetry, New Poems, in 1896, and edited her Collected Poems (1904).



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