The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood emerged in Victorian England as a reaction against academic convention, pressing instead for sincerity, symbolic depth, and close engagement with the natural and spiritual worlds. Christina Georgina Rossetti was among the writers affiliated with that movement, contributing to it as a poet and writer working in the English language.

Born in London on 5 December 1830, Rossetti was a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She worked across several related forms — poet, writer, hymnwriter, and librettist — and her poetry moved through romantic, devotional, and children's subjects. That range placed her within the Pre-Raphaelite circle while also extending beyond what visual artists in the Brotherhood typically addressed, since her work took sacred and lyric verse as its primary territory.

Her devotional poems, her romantic poems, and her poems written for children each occupied a distinct register, yet all fell within the same sustained practice of writing that defined her career. As a hymnwriter and librettist she worked in forms beyond standalone verse, though the same commitment to the English lyric ran through those efforts as well. The variety of her output — across romantic feeling, religious subject matter, and writing addressed to younger readers — reflected a writer who moved with deliberate purpose among different modes.

Rossetti died in London on 29 December 1894, having been born and having died in the same city. Her affiliation with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood situated her within one of the Victorian period's most self-conscious literary and artistic movements, and her work as a poet, hymnwriter, and librettist placed her among those writers who engaged seriously with both secular and devotional forms throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.