Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) were both regarded as the female poet laureates of their time, and between them their writings spanned almost the entire Victorian age, from the end of Romanticism to the beginnings of Modernism. This selection of their shorter works contains all the major themes that animated them-social justice, faith, love and mortality-and some of the bestloved poetry in English, including In The Deep Midwinter and How Do I Love Thee?