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Question 1

Rossetti personally

Answer 1

Financial difficulty whilst growing up
Poor health

Question 2

Rossetti personal inspirations

Answer 2

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Influences in her poetry
Explores feminist ideas in her poems
Elizabeth Barrett influence

Question 3

What is Rossetti’s connections to feminism?

Answer 3

She wasn’t a feminist, Rejected ideas of woman suffragettes
However, her work shows subtle criticisms to the treatment of woman and restrictions imposed on woman.

Question 4

Pre Raphaelite brotherhood?

Answer 4

A group of young British painters. Rejected the traditional historical painting of the Royal Academy
Focused more on Italian renaissance and Classical art.

Question 5

Elizabeth Barret’s influence?

Answer 5

Christina Rossetti often wrote poems in response to Elizabeth Barret.
Offering more sympathetic views of woman.

Question 6

Victorian general context

Answer 6

Queen Victoria mourning her husband led to more poems about death and loss.
Strict codes of sexual morals for woman which risked social exile.
Social culture was very conervative.