Rossetti Critics

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Armstrong: “Goblin market defies the view that

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women were ‘passionless angels’”

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William Acton: (late 1800s), report called

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“Prostitution””

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Eleanor Marx: “women are the creations of

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The organised tyranny of men” (1884)

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Rossetti: “Unalterable distinction” between

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Men and women

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Lisa Scholl: “Her writing seems to suggest

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… That women are equal to men”

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Simon Avery: “Rossetti’s poems encourage

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Women to claim independence and agency”

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Barbara Morden: “Rossetti cannot be characterised

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As languid and depressed”

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Sara Phillips: “Her motifs derive from

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Rural and biblical symbols”

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Poetry Foundation: “Rossetti’s poems evince a concern

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With individual salvation rather than social reform”

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Pamela Bickely: “There is nothing meek or

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Self-effacing in her demand for emotional fulfillment”