Study Guide for Christina G, Rossetti

• published Sing-Song 10 years before Stevenson published A Child's Garden of Verses
• came from a famous family of writers and artist
• never married and never had children
• her two brothers tried to control her life
• Sing-Song
• only collection of verses
• from an adult point of view
• speaker mainly adult
• many included didactics
  
• love between a mother and child
• death
• nature, but not a child playing in nature
• fewer than 1/3 from child's point of view
• major themes
• love
• death
• parting
• realities of life
• 10 on death
• 4 on play
• Gender Issues
• stereotypical image of a boy being mischievous
  
• Arthur Hughes
• foremost children's illustrator
• worked together with verses and illustrations
• inherent part of verses' meaning