My Last Duchess context

Question 1

When was my last duchess published?

Answer 1

1842

Question 2

What were attitudes towards women like?

Answer 2

Power and gender discrimination

Question 3

What happened when a woman became married?

Answer 3

legal property of her husband

Question 4

Women weren’t aloud to..

Answer 4

testify in court .. no freedom of speech

Question 5

They couldn’t

Answer 5

vote

Question 6

It was believed that women were INCAPABLE OF RATIONAL THOUGHT and (3)

Answer 6

Many females.. PUBLISHED WORK ANONYMOUSLY
UNDER MALE PSEUDONYMS in order to boost sales
Even though they COULD PUBLISH, literature was not taken as seriously if written by a female.. e.g. jane austen

Question 7

the poem is firmly within which era?

Answer 7

firmly within the victorian era PATRIARCAL SOCIETY

Question 8

women were expected to… (3)

Answer 8

EMBODY VALUES OF PASSIVITY
SELFLESSNESS TOWARDS HUSBANDS
SUBMISSIVENESS TO MEN but dismissive towards males that were not husbands

Question 9

When women became married (2)

Answer 9

sexual conduct before marriage was frowned upon

they were heavily clothed to emphasise such propriety