Christina Rossetti is one of the most prominent women writers of the Victorian era. She grew up in a family with
a strong literary tradition and was labeled as a prodigy by her family members. Some of her best works include
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) and Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872).
She composed her loneliness, her betrayal, her despair, her frustrated love, her sickness, her shyness, her relgious
virtues, her sexual repression, and her wishes for death all down on paper in the forms of letters, poems (simplistic, irregularly
rhymed, and often song-like), sonnet sequences, and prose. She is best known for her poetry.
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