WOMEN

Question 1

parliment

Answer 1

argued for women represtation at parliament, and spoke out against the sexual exploitation of women in prostitution

Question 2

James

Answer 2

One of the Pre-raphaelite brethens, James Collins, proposed marriage to Rossetti in 1848. She refused the offer, giving Collinson’s recent conversion to Roman Catholicism as the reason.

Question 3

societal differences

Answer 3

rossetti acknowledges the societal differences between men and women, and did work to help (penitentiary) From the Antique ‘i wish and i wish i were a man’ indicates she knows shes restricted because of her gender, but accepts that thats what God intended

Question 4

Womans sufferage

Answer 4

refused to help, “understood unalterable differences between men and womens positions, privileges and duties’ as an explanation

Question 5

relgious genre

Answer 5

the religious genre allowed women to venture beyond the rigid structure of the female sphere. Both Rosetti and Maynell address christ as a lover through the use of Religious imagery, in a way that wouldnt have been acceptable had they been examining earthly love.

Question 6

Angel of the house

Answer 6

Women were expected to be the ‘Angel of the House,’ a phrase perpetuated by Coventry Patmore’s immensly populet poem (1854)

Question 7

explain the angel of the house

Answer 7

women depicted to be quiet, subversive and pure.

Question 8

marriage

Answer 8

The most common targets of her criticism were marriage as a form of female bondage (No Thankyou John), women being treated as objects of desire, and the double- standard within male/female relationships.

Question 9

anti suffragette

Answer 9

Rossetti signed Mary Ward’s anti suffgrage petition in 1889.

Question 10

what year did james propose

Answer 10

1848

Question 11

what year did conventry patimore publish AOTH poem

Answer 11

1854