Christina Rossetti was a poet during the Victorian period. Her most famous work is a narrative poem called Globin Market, but she wrote a great many other poems too, including poems for very young children.

In the first class I'll introduce a few of Christina Rossetti's works and we'll begin talking about her life and social connections. Christina came from a very gifted family. Her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a painter and a member of a group of artists known as the Pre-Raphaelite...