context Rossetti

Question 1

when was the first reform act (britain)

Answer 1

1832

Question 2

when did queen victorias rule start

Answer 2

1837

Question 3

when was the chartist movement

Answer 3

1836

Question 4

when did JH newman join the church of rome

Answer 4

9 october 1845

Question 5

when were the revolutions of france, germany, austria, poland and parts of italy

Answer 5

1848

Question 6

when was the crimean war

Answer 6

1853

Question 7

when was the first married womans property act

Answer 7

1870

Question 8

when was the socety for the employment of women

Answer 8

1859

Question 9

when was the second reform act

Answer 9

1867

Question 10

when were universities and medical educatiosn available to women

Answer 10

1874

Question 11

when was the secons married womans property act

Answer 11

1882

Question 12

when did the age of sexual consent rise to 16

Answer 12

1885

Question 13

what were seperate spheres

Answer 13

it was the belief that natural charecteristics of women and men ment that women would stay in the home and man would work, having seperate spheres of life onlu coming togethre for breakfast and dinner.

Question 14

which family members did rossetti idealise

Answer 14

her sister and mum

Question 15

how long was rossetti engaged to james collinson for

Answer 15

2 yearswh

Question 16

why did rossetti break off her engagement to james collinson

Answer 16

because he converted to roman catholacism and wanted to become a priest

Question 17

how many suitors did rossetti have in her life

Answer 17

3

Question 18

what did rossettis anglican faith cause her to believe in

Answer 18

self deniel with the promise of rewards in heaven

Question 19

what happened in rossettis childhood that changed her personality

Answer 19

she had a mental and physical breakdown resulting in a turn completely towards religeon

Question 20

who published many of Rs poems after her death

Answer 20

william micheal rossetti

Question 21

what was believed that men and women should stay in at the time

Answer 21

seperate spheres

Question 22

where did rossetti voulenteer

Answer 22

highgate penitentiary for fallwn women

Question 23

how long did CR voulenteer at highgate penitentary for

Answer 23

over 11 years

Question 24

what movement influenced some of rossettis work (a birthday and goblin market)

Answer 24

the pre-raphealite movement

Question 25

what did neighbors of rossetti claim

Answer 25

they could hear screaming on her deathbed as she believed she was going to hell

Question 26

how many religeous works did rossetti write

Answer 26

500

Question 27

what did CR campaign for

Answer 27

the raise of the age of consent to 16

Question 28

who illustrated some of rossettis poems (but then stopped when she asked them to)

Answer 28

her brother

Question 29

what did rossetti believe women could do better than men

Answer 29

stand up for the vunrable and disadvantaged

Question 30

what was the tractarian thoery

Answer 30

it believed that religeous works shpuld be enigmatic, the reader should have to decipher them

Question 31

what anglican belief influenced poems like remember

Answer 31

soul sleep

Question 32

what fraction of CRs poetry is devoutional

Answer 32

over 1/2

Question 33

what did the rossettis expirience

Answer 33

financial difficulties

Question 34

what was rossetti diagnosed with

Answer 34

graves desies

Question 35

when was CR diagnosed with graves desease

Answer 35

40

Question 36

what was the infectios desiese act

Answer 36

it punished prostitutes and not their clients

Question 37

what showed victorian conflicting views on sexual freedom

Answer 37

the infectious deseases act

Question 38

who is roumered to have proposed to rossetti

Answer 38

john Brett

Question 39

who did rossetti call of a relationship with (not engagement)

Answer 39

charles cayley

Question 40

why did rossetti call off her relationship with charles cayley

Answer 40

he was agnostic