Christina Georgina Rossetti

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Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet. Her siblings were the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, and Maria Francesca Rossetti. Their father, Gabriele Rossetti, was an Italian poet and a political asylum seeker from Naples; and their mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori.