Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (born 1830)

Christina Georgina Rossetti 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. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings. Some of her early poetry, such as "Goblin Market", was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

December 29 is the 363rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; two days remain until the end of the year.