Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
When Christina Rossetti was little, she took a pair of scissors and stabbed herself in the arm just to prove a point to her mother. Eek. (Source.)
Rossetti wrote her first full poem, "To my mother on her birthday," at age 11. Talk about a child prodigy. (Source.)
Rossetti's brother, Dante Gabriel, illustrated perhaps her most famous poem, "Goblin Market." (Source.)