"Rossetti makes her an active and sensual woman who seeks satisfaction."
Josephine Pierce
1 of 13
"Rossetti predominantly expresses an emotional love and not a sexualised love."
Joshua Backer
2 of 13
"Goblin Market is about rejecting carnal lust and finding sexuality in marriage."
Kent
3 of 13
"Rossetti was a suffering romantic, while her poems might express love, it is the pain of love."
Lars Wallner
4 of 13
"The majority of women are not troubled with sexual feeling of any kind."
"The existence of [female] sexual excitement is a form of insanity."
"women either throw their morals to the wind or are good, honest mothers..."
William Acton
5 of 13
"Focus is not on the possibility of fulfilling earthly love, or upon the betray in love, but rather renunciation."
Anthony Harrison
6 of 13
"emphasises the way in which women might be trapped by convention."
Simon Avery
7 of 13
"A quiet and observant child with her own way of life already fixed in her head."
Woolf
8 of 13
"a woman such as Laura may fall and yet rise again, as long as a 'sister' like Lizzie is there to save her."
Joseph Bristow
9 of 13
"in a patriarchal culture, a woman inevitably experiences herself as object and other."
Simon de Beauvoir
10 of 13
"her women are often- and increasingly so - strong rather than weak, and that Rossetti herself was a conscious observer and critic of the 'option' open to Victorian women."
Marianne Skoczek
11 of 13
"Rossetti had radically rewritten the fall of Eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women which she sees around her and includes more than a hint that the male gender oppression to be interpreted as original sin."
Lynda Palazzo
12 of 13
"Rossetti creates analogies between the biblical description of salvation and in the social context of Victorian [England]."
Welss
13 of 13
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Card 2
Front
"Rossetti predominantly expresses an emotional love and not a sexualised love."
Back
Joshua Backer
Card 3
Front
"Goblin Market is about rejecting carnal lust and finding sexuality in marriage."
Back
Card 4
Front
"Rossetti was a suffering romantic, while her poems might express love, it is the pain of love."
Back
Card 5
Front
"The majority of women are not troubled with sexual feeling of any kind."
"The existence of [female] sexual excitement is a form of insanity."
"women either throw their morals to the wind or are good, honest mothers..."
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