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Christina Rossetti

1830 - 1894

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Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Darke and other composers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christina Rossetti has received more than 1,703,113 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Christina Rossetti is the 2,141st most popular writer (down from 2,106th in 2019), the 1,660th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,623rd in 2019) and the 182nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 41

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  • 4.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christina Rossetti ranks 2,141 out of 5,755Before her are Fredrika Bremer, Khushal Khattak, Thomas Gray, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Aleksa Šantić, and Suzanne Collins. After her are Eugène Marin Labiche, Christopher Robin Milne, Edward Young, Li He, Thomas Keneally, and Bâkî.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Christina Rossetti ranks 35Before her are Karl Goldmark, Theodor Leschetizky, Alexei Savrasov, Carmine Crocco, François-Marie Raoult, and Yoshida Shōin. After her are Kamehameha V, Albert Günther, Aga Khan II, Luigi Cremona, Guido Gezelle, and Grigor Parlichev. Among people deceased in 1894, Christina Rossetti ranks 31Before her are Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia, Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria, Gall, and Guillaume Lekeu. After her are Alexander von Middendorff, Władysław Czartoryski, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Heinrich Hoffmann, and Auguste Vaillant.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christina Rossetti ranks 1,660 out of 7,765Before her are Sandford Fleming (1827), Thomas Gray (1716), Eric Campbell (1880), Harriet Martineau (1802), Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), and Wendy Hiller (1912). After her are Christopher Robin Milne (1920), Edward Young (1683), Mark of Cornwall (480), Elsa Lanchester (1902), James Bruce (1730), and Ebenezer Howard (1850).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Christina Rossetti ranks 182Before her are Dick Francis (1920), James Hilton (1900), David Lodge (1935), John Mandeville (1300), Vera Brittain (1893), and Thomas Gray (1716). After her are Christopher Robin Milne (1920), Edward Young (1683), Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), Irvine Welsh (1957), Matthew Arnold (1822), and Kenneth Grahame (1859).