ROSSETTI CONTEXT HISTORICAL

CHANGES TO WAYS OF LIVING 

• 1830-pop increase 12 mill-30 mill 1894
• rossetti lived in london=aqauainted with such chnages

CRIMEAN WAR

• 1854=rossetti applied to help but turned down due to youth and gender

WOMEN AND THE VOTE

• second half 19th cent-WANT GIVE WOMEN PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION
• WOMEN INCREASE EDUCATION AND ESTABLISH THEMSELVES 
• BUT NOT UNIVERSAL-ALOT STILL COULDNT READ/WORKED AT HOME
• AND ALOT SAW WOMENS PARLIAMENTARY REPRESNETAION AS UNECCESSARY
• ROSSETTI-MEN AND OWMEN-GOD CREATED=FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT 

POET AUGUSTA WEBSTER-1870S WROTE TO ROSSETTI-ASK FOR…