ROSSETTI CONTEXT Flashcards
Death and Poverty in Victorian England
Deaths occurred more frequently because of poor public health and disease spreading ( it could spread easily as industrial revolution attracted people into the cities and factories took a lot of land - overcrowded.
Poverty had a high % - work houses were set up by the church/council to tackle this but the conditions were atrocious and people were payed little (even children had to work).
Describe Victorian England in terms of women and religion.
women were seen as inferior to men - expected to stay in the house and care for children. Country was religious and Catholicism started to become accepted again.
Where was Rossetti educated?
What was she encouraged to do at a young age?
She was educated at home like most women = studied religious works , fairy tales and novel.
her artistic family encouraged her to develop artistic talents.
Rossetti’s Family
Rossetti was born into an artistic family,
Brother = Dante Gabriel Rossetti- pre-raphelite painter and poet.
Father = poet
She was exposed to art and all forms from a young age, and was privileged with her education more than others in this way.
What did Rossetti become interested in and what did she suffer at 14?
became interested in Anglo-Catholicism.
She suffered a nervous breakdown and had depression through her life.
Why did she turn 2 men away when they wanted to marry her?
Why did she turn 2 men away when they wanted to marry her?
How did she die?
Died at 64, due to breast cancer
Rossetti context of prostitution
Concerned with the welfare of women coming back from prostitution, reference to Mary Magdalene and predominately seen in ‘Goblin Market’
Work with ‘fallen women’, sisterhood can save women
Define a high Anglican
how was Rossetti involved in Anglican sisterhood
what was Rossetti’s end goal?
person that emphasises the catholic way of life.
worked 10 years in a house that rehabilitated prostitutes that Anglican nuns ran.
to reduce female dependency on men
Pre-Raphelite Brotherhood
Part of it because it was the only way her views would be taken seriously - as women in those ages needed to have the approval of a man.
PRB literature mainly focused on literature and religious characters, mood >rather than the story, female beauty and sexual anticipation, she wrote poetry in direct contrast to some of the art work (destroys idea of painting of Damozel in ‘song’)
Painting in Song
> Destroys the depiction of Demonzel, painting by her brother, in Song
Define Anglo-Catholicism
What happened when this movement grew?
idea encouraging catholic way of life instead of a protestant one.
Church allowed for Catholicism to be practised legally again.
Define a high Anglican
how was Rossetti involved in Anglican sisterhood
what was Rossetti’s end goal?
person that emphasises the catholic way of life.
worked 10 years in a house that rehabilitated prostitutes that Anglican nuns ran.
to reduce female dependency on men
Rossetti’s Life
