ROSETTI

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THE SATURDAY REVEIW 1877

'no passion...not much thinking in them'

'but  are melodious and sweet'

-patronsisng and belliterling to women=contemporaneous views of womens writing 

-womens intelligence and a deep misundertanding of rosetti

SIMON AVERY ON MARRIAGE 

'rosetti examines women position in society through consideration of instsituion of marriage'

VIRGINIA WOOLF 'I AM CHRISTINA ROSETTI'

'your god was a harsh god'

-good summary of rosetti-her own inerpretation of the bible etc made her so self loathing and critical=religion didnt free her but kept her in chaines/represses 

-she does and does not encompass this assertion

-she shuns marriage-focus on god and religion etc but  perhaos this did allow her freedom and to pursue her writing etc=intellectual life

GILBERT AND GUBAR

'rosetti buries herself alive in coffin of renunciation' 'looses herself in the aesthetics of renunciation'

-she has made art of feeling sorry for herself and assuming herself on a higher emotional plane 

-she assumes herself superior as has devoted her life to god 

PALAZOO

'Rossettis feminist theology'

'she had radiaclly rewritten the fall of even including the social and spiritual abuse of women'

-modern interpretaion

-women being the original sinners 

-feminist movement to suggest that 'eve was…

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