Rossetti Context
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- Created on: 01-05-22 15:02
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- House for Fallen Women
- Refuges and penitentiaries, which actively sought out women working as prostitutes, offered a safe environment to help women to leave the profession
- Many of these institutions were exclusively religious, however, underpinned by a belief that repentance before God deserves human forgiveness
- Rossetti volunteered at St Mary Magdalene house between 1859-1870, where she was known as Sister Christina
- Refuges and penitentiaries, which actively sought out women working as prostitutes, offered a safe environment to help women to leave the profession
- The Oxford Movement
- Led by John Keeble
- Keeble believed that the church was at risk of becoming an arm of the state and it needed to be a rediscovery of the doctrine that it was a Christian body
- The movement gave way to women being able to nurse and teach
- The movement recognised a more important role of women in church - especially in sewing and adorning the altar
- Rossetti was a member of the Oxford Movement
- 1840s - changed to Anglo-Catholicism (more emphasis on rituals)
- Christina Rossetti - CONTEXT
- House for Fallen Women
- Refuges and penitentiaries, which actively sought out women working as prostitutes, offered a safe environment to help women to leave the profession
- Many of these institutions were exclusively religious, however, underpinned by a belief that repentance before God deserves human forgiveness
- Rossetti volunteered at St Mary Magdalene house between 1859-1870, where she was known as Sister Christina
- Refuges and penitentiaries, which actively sought out women working as prostitutes, offered a safe environment to help women to leave the profession
- Rossetti's personal life
- twice engaged but called off the engagements for religious reasons
- Augusta Webster wrote to her in 1870 asking for support in women getting the vote
- Rossetti refused because of the "unalterable distinction between men and women; their position; their duties and privileges" that the bible teaches
- Religion
- Dawinism creates religious doubt
- Origin of Species - 1859
- 14 year breakdown due to religious mania (Rossetti)
- Rossetti believed in soul sleep (period of limbo before judgement day)
- Anglican Churches were state led i.e., the monarch was the head
- Rossetti's poems had specific religious allusions
- Dawinism creates religious doubt
- Gender
- Matrimonial Causes Act (1859) - allows women to divorce on grounds of abuse
- The Society for the Employment of Women - 1859
- Married Property Act (1882) - everything a woman owned belonged to husband (even after marriage)
- Custody of Infants Act (1839) - Mothers have custody of their children until age of 7
- Queen Victoria
- The Aggravates Assaults Act (1853)
- Victorian Era was the 'domesticated age'
- Death
- 1861 - Prince Albert dies, Victoria in mourning/depression for the last 40 years of her life
- Tuberculosis (TB) Pandemic
- Industrial Revolution meant cities were highly populated (and overcrowded, poor conditions spread diseases quicker)
- Death rate of children under 5 is 33% (in London)
- Revolutionised the water systems in London, study about washing hands
- 1846 - cholera outbreak
- Germ Theory of 1861
- Rossetti's dad died when she was 24
- Gin craze due to undrinkable water
- Nature
- Age of Pessimism and Dawinism means that nature is less related to God
- Royal botanical garden in 1841
- Garden of Eden ideals
- Romanticism of 1860s - highly focused on the beauty of nature
- Floriography - language of flowers in Victorian Era - flowers held different meanings
- Temptation
- Gin craze
- Opium Houses
- Sexual Contagious Diseases Act (1864)
- Prostitution
- House for Fallen Women
- Pre-Raphaelites
- Whilst considered a Pre-Raphaelite poet, Rossetti never joined the brotherhood
- her brother Dante Rossetti was involved in the movement
- Hailed by the critic Ruskin who believed the art was going to nature in all the singleness of the heart
- Ruskin believed that pre-raphaelites went back to a more ancient and pure way of life
- Christina Rossetti - CONTEXT
- Rossetti's personal life
- twice engaged but called off the engagements for religious reasons
- Augusta Webster wrote to her in 1870 asking for support in women getting the vote
- Rossetti refused because of the "unalterable distinction between men and women; their position; their duties and privileges" that the bible teaches
- Religion
- Dawinism creates religious doubt
- Origin of Species - 1859
- 14 year breakdown due to religious mania (Rossetti)
- Rossetti believed in soul sleep (period of limbo before judgement day)
- Anglican Churches were state led i.e., the monarch was the head
- Rossetti's poems had specific religious allusions
- Dawinism creates religious doubt
- Gender
- Matrimonial Causes Act (1859) - allows women to divorce on grounds of abuse
- The Society for the Employment of Women - 1859
- Married Property Act (1882) - everything a woman owned belonged to husband (even after marriage)
- Custody of Infants Act (1839) - Mothers have custody of their children until age of 7
- Queen Victoria
- The Aggravates Assaults Act (1853)
- Victorian Era was the 'domesticated age'
- Death
- 1861 - Prince Albert dies, Victoria in mourning/depression for the last 40 years of her life
- Tuberculosis (TB) Pandemic
- Industrial Revolution meant cities were highly populated (and overcrowded, poor conditions spread diseases quicker)
- Death rate of children under 5 is 33% (in London)
- Revolutionised the water systems in London, study about washing hands
- 1846 - cholera outbreak
- Germ Theory of 1861
- Rossetti's dad died when she was 24
- Gin craze due to undrinkable water
- Nature
- Age of Pessimism and Dawinism means that nature is less related to God
- Royal botanical garden in 1841
- Garden of Eden ideals
- Romanticism of 1860s - highly focused on the beauty of nature
- Floriography - language of flowers in Victorian Era - flowers held different meanings
- Temptation
- Gin craze
- Opium Houses
- Sexual Contagious Diseases Act (1864)
- Prostitution
- Rossetti's personal life
- Whilst considered a Pre-Raphaelite poet, Rossetti never joined the brotherhood
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