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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
    • 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
    • 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"
    • 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) 
  • Themes
    • Context
      • poems
        • Critics
  • 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) 

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