Context Flashcards
1
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Childhood - Dinah Birch
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‘literary family life’
- age 14/15 - suffered a mental breakdown
- consequence of this was she was considered fragile = gave her the space to write
2
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Religion
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‘Devout Anglican’
read the bible daily
‘scholarly religiosity’
3
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Marriage
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Rossetti never married!! - extremely subversive figure for the time
- 1848 - 50 engaged to Collinson - the engagement was called off bc he changed religions
- Possible romance with John Brett - inspo for NTYJ?
4
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Influence of the PRB
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