Women & Sex Flashcards
Rossetti’s poetry can be seen to give women a voice, what examples of this do we see in her poetry?
Poems such as No Thank You, John, Maude Clare and From the Antique convey female perspectives that were somewhat unheard of at that time
What does Coventry Patmore’s The Angel in the House convey about how women were seen at this time?
Wives were the property of their husbands.
Why did Rossetti refuse James Collinson’s proposal?
Because he was Catholic.
Why did Rossetti’s relationship with Charles Cayley fail?
“His ideas were far removed from Christian Orthodoxy” as highlighted by Frances Thomas.
Complete this Frances Thomas quote: “We are more conscious than Christina Rossetti would have been
of the erotic imagery of this poem…”
Why does Frances Thomas believe victorian women would have been unaware of the sexual imagery seen in Goblin Market?
“Many Victorian women…lived their erotic lives at a just pre-adolescent level…”
Why does Kathryn Burlison believe Goblin Market has sexual connotations?
“Blushes often symbolise erotic response in Victorian Literature, as lower body arousal in displaced to the face”
What could be the reasoning for why Rossetti signed the Anti-Suffrage petition?
She was a Tractarian and believe in the Calvinist idea that everything was pre-determined: thus, she would have accepted her role as a woman as God Given.
