“Your eye indeed, observed with a sensual pre-Raphaelite intensity”
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Dolores Rosenblum: ‘Shakespeare Sisters’
The problem is especially acute during adolecense when woman must make herself into or pretend to be an alluring object. “The very face becomes a mask”.
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Simon Avery: British Library
"Rossetti’s speakers demonstrate both an awareness of, and resistance to, those social and political expectation which define acceptable roles for women and which potentially leave them powerless."
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Jerome McGann calls Christina Rossetti
“one of the nineteenth-century England’s greatest ‘Odd Women.’ ”
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Russell & Stewart (about Rossetti)
"She had her own agenda in life"
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Card 2
Front
The problem is especially acute during adolecense when woman must make herself into or pretend to be an alluring object. “The very face becomes a mask”.
Back
Dolores Rosenblum: ‘Shakespeare Sisters’
Card 3
Front
"Rossetti’s speakers demonstrate both an awareness of, and resistance to, those social and political expectation which define acceptable roles for women and which potentially leave them powerless."
Back
Card 4
Front
“one of the nineteenth-century England’s greatest ‘Odd Women.’ ”
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