GENDER

Question 1

Maude Clare ‘is a clear critique….’

Answer 1

‘of dominant masculinity’ - Simon Avery

Question 2

Goblin Market is an ‘allegory of….’

Answer 2

‘sexual transgression’ - Morden

Question 3

Early Male Views of Rossetti Poetry (move into context)

Answer 3

The early male reviewers and critics of Rossetti often dismissed and reduced the complexity of her work

For instance, in the Saturday Review, published in 1866, a reviewer spoke of Rossetti’s poems: “There is not much thinking in them, not much high or deep feeling, no passion”

“But they are melodious and sweet … there is a certain quaint originality… the writer delights to treat all her fancies”

By dismissing any trace of deep thinking, by speaking of Rossetti’s poems as ‘melodious’, ‘sweet’ and ‘quaint’ and by calling her subjects ‘fancies’, the critic confines her writings to his expectations of what is fitting for female verse

Question 4

‘It’s a weary life…’

Answer 4

‘….it is, she said, doubly blank in a woman’s lot’ - From the Antique

Question 5

‘brother with…’

Answer 5

‘queer brother’ - Goblin Market

Question 6

‘I wish and I wish…’

Answer 6

‘I were a man’ - From the Antique

Question 7

‘In open treaty….’

Answer 7

‘Rise above - No, Thank You John

Question 8

‘Let us strike hands….’

Answer 8

‘as hearty friends’ - No, Thank you, John

Question 9

‘Laura rose…’

Answer 9

‘With Lizzie’ - Goblin Market

Question 10

‘Yea, beds for…’

Answer 10

‘all who come’ - Uphill

Question 11

Rossetti quote about gender

Answer 11

‘There is no men and women, we are one’