Rossetti Context Flashcards
During her adolescent breakdown, what was she committed to?
Tractarianism
Rossetti confessed a ‘romantic impulse’ to the convent of what church?
Christ Church
Her first full length story ‘Maude’ was in part a dramatisation of what?
The impulse become a nun and its complexities
Like Rossetti, what is ‘Maude’ obscurely troubled by and painfully pre-occupied with?
Countless nameless and complex sins
What is tractarianism?
- A firm belief in hell and the reality of devils
- It believed in reinstating the CONVENTual life for women
How did her exposure to Tractarianism/ the Oxford Movement mark her life?
She acquired ‘an awful sense of unworthiness, shadowed by an awful certainty of the reality of hell’
What did Rossetti postpone for a year due to her feeling she was unworthy of everything associated with goodness?
Her confirmation
In what year did she begin volunteering at The St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary in Highgate?
1859
What did The St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary do?
Was dedicate to the reform and rehabilitation of prostitutes (fallen women), believing their sexual transgressions could be redeemed.
What did she volunteer to join in 1854 during the Crimean war?
Florence Nightingale’s nurses
Gabriel Rossetti said Christina was ‘a born’ what?
‘Apostle’
Simon Avery argued that
‘time and again… the female figure is depicted as entrapped or confined - physically, psychologically or both.’
What was the Victorian idea of Soul Sleep?
The waiting period between a person’s death and resurrection at the Second Coming
