Christina Rossetti, Poet
27 April -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Spiritual Writers, page 473
Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 and was associated with
the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, of which her older brother,
Dante, was a prominent member. Her elder sister became an
Anglican Religious. Christina's own fame rests upon her
poetry, which dealt mainly with religious subjects but also
the sadness of unrequited or disappointed love. She was the
author of the Christmastide carol In the bleak
mid-winter. She died on this day in the year 1894.