British poet. She was a pious Christian and wrote many devotional verses and children’s poems. Her most famous works are Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) and Sing-Song: a Nursery Rhyme Book (1872). Her biographers reported her to be a calm, quiet and innocent woman, totally in contrast with her free-spirited brother, Dante Gabriel. In her ballads, however, we find her passionate nature as a new Victorian woman beneath the surface of the poetry. The form of the ballad concealed her personality and her strong will. (M. M.)