Question

A poet from this family coined the word "yesteryear" in his translation of François Villon's ("vee-YON’s") Ballad of Dead Ladies. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this family of the author Dante Gabriel, who illustrated his sister Christina's poem "Goblin Market."
ANSWER: Rossetti [accept Dante Gabriel Rossetti; accept Christina Rossetti]
[10m] Dante Gabriel Rossetti described a woman with seven stars in her hair waiting in heaven in a poem about a "Damozel" described by this adjective.
ANSWER: blessed [accept "The Blessed Damozel"]
[10h] Another Rossetti poem describes a "Lazy laughing languid" woman of this name, "fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea." A woman of this name "kiss'd me" in a Leigh Hunt poem, and a "Low-Dive" woman of this name imagines becoming a pirate in The Threepenny Opera.
ANSWER: Jenny [accept "Jenny Kiss’d Me" or "Pirate Jenny" or Low-Dive Jenny or Jenny Diver]
<Literature - British Literature - Poetry>

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