Wilde/ Rossetti Context

Question 1

Who blackmailed Wilde regarding a love letter? When was it?

Answer 1

Alfred Wood
1893

Question 2

When did Wilde edit “Women’s World”

Answer 2

1887-1889

Question 3

What was taking the Chiltern 100?

Answer 3

How MP’s resign

Question 4

When was Apologia written? What was it about?

Answer 4

1895
The theme of giving up happiness for one’s love.

Question 5

Who was Wilde’s mother?

Answer 5

Jane Wilde

Question 6

What book did Jane Wilde write and when?

Answer 6

Social Studies
1879

Question 7

Who did Dandyism evolve from?

Answer 7

Bauldlaire
1860s

Question 8

When was Wilde convicted and what of?

Answer 8

1895
Gross Indecency

Question 9

What was Wilde sentenced to?

Answer 9

2 years hard labor in jail

Question 10

What did Wilde refer to Victorian society as?

Answer 10

Having a “modern mania for morality”

Question 11

When was the term ‘Angel of the house’ first used?

Answer 11

1854

Question 12

When was An Ideal Husband written?

Answer 12

1895 (yellow nineties)

Question 13

When was “breadwinner” first used?

Answer 13

1820s

Question 14

What was the Doctrine of Separate Spheres?

Answer 14

men and women operate in different social circles

Question 15

When was the Victorian marriage season?

Answer 15

May - August

Question 16

When was the Matrimonial Causes Act and what did it do?

Answer 16

1854
Made secular divorces possible by obtaining a court order.

Question 17

On average how many divorces were passed each year by Parliament?

Answer 17

10

Question 18

When was the contagious diseases act and what did it do?

Answer 18

1864
Made the arrest of female prostitutes possible

Question 19

In the 1851census, how much of the population attended church services?

Answer 19

5.2 Million / 18 Million

Question 20

When did Rosetti work at St Mary’s Church?

Answer 20

1859-1870

Question 21

What age was Rossetti when she suffered her first nervous breakdown?

Answer 21

14

Question 22

When was Rosetti’s religious crisis?

Answer 22

1857

Question 23

Why did Rosetti have her religious crisis?

Answer 23

She deemed herself not worthy of Jesus’ sacrifice?

Question 24

Which 3 men did Rossetti reject due to her faith?

Answer 24

John Brett
Charles Cayley
James Collinson

Question 25

When was Goblin Market Written?

Answer 25

April 1859

Question 26

When was Good Friday written?

Answer 26

1862

Question 27

When was NTYJ written?

Answer 27

1862

Question 28

Who was Soeur Louise?

Answer 28

Louise de la Valliere

Question 29

When did Louise become a nun?

Answer 29

1674

Question 30

What is In the Round Tower based on?

Answer 30

The Indian Mutiny of 1857

Question 31

How many Christians hacked to death in the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 31

Captain Skene, His Wife and 56 others

Question 32

When did Maria Rossetti become a nun?

Answer 32

1873

Question 33

When did Rossetti’s father die?

Answer 33

1854

Question 34

What did Dr William Acton say about female desire in 1857?
“The majority of women…”

Answer 34

“The majority of women are not troubled by sexual desire of any kind”