Rossetti Context mindmap
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- Rossetti Context
- Gender
- From 1859, Rosetti worked at the St Mary Nagdalene Penitentiary in Highgate, supervising young prostitutes who wished to relinquish a life of shame
- In 1889 she signed 'An Appeal against Female suffrage' which is thought to have held the cause back by ten years.
- Rosetti was writing in a profoundly patriarchal literary culture. She had a lifelong struggle with feminist desries;
- Goblin Market
- From The Antique
- From 1859, Rosetti worked at the St Mary Nagdalene Penitentiary in Highgate, supervising young prostitutes who wished to relinquish a life of shame
- Religion
- suffered from religious mania in her youth, she wouldn't even stop on a piece of paper from fear it would be a page of the bible
- Shut Out
- Soul Sleep
- Uphill
- A Birthday
- suffered from religious mania in her youth, she wouldn't even stop on a piece of paper from fear it would be a page of the bible
- Relationships
- Her primary relationship was with god
- Engaged 3 times but never married. One man was John- a friend of her brother Dante, and the basis of No, Thankyou, John
- No, Thank you, John
- Had to say it was about a fictional admirer
- "the real John was obnoxious"
- Had to say it was about a fictional admirer
- No, Thank you, John
- Family
- Christina and her sister, Maria, were both educated at home whilst her brothers went to school
- She was educated at home by her parents, they taught religious works, fairytales and classics
- Dante suffered with a drug problem
- Goblin Market
- Audience reception
- Her brother, William, edited her poems (filtered through a male gaze)
- Gender
- Themes
- Context
- poems
- Critics
- poems
- Context
- Wrote for the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood of which her brother was a member
- Audience reception
- Her brother, William, edited her poems (filtered through a male gaze)
- Audience reception
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