Rossetti critics

Question 1

MC
the issue of Victorian feminity

Answer 1

is dealt with on multiple layers which either reinforces or challenges these gender ideals in reflection on the position of women
Andre Stewart

Question 2

GM
it may be presumed

Answer 2

to be some sense an allogory but what that allegory is we cannot undertake to say.
1877 Staurday Review

Question 3

GM
Denying that it was

Answer 3

anything more than a fairytale
= cover
Frances Thomas

Question 4

Your sister should

Answer 4

write as the public like
1861 – John Ruskin
An artist who advised Dante Rossetti from getting Christina’s poems published

Question 5

NTYJ
The suitor isn’t given a

Answer 5

voice showing the power dynamic as she turns his arguemnet against him with un-flawed logic
–> not ‘logic’ as it disagred with the rest of society
Avery

Question 6

GM
Rossetti would slip

Answer 6

political statements into her writings. One such poem was ‘GM’ in which Rossetti addresses such themes as rape.
–> Is it political?
Danica

Question 7

Adressing Rossetti volenteeing to support fallen women

Answer 7

‘she was interested in the fates of women with compromised morals’
Vs. she wanted to help them
Davies

Question 8

NTYJ
This poem asserts

Answer 8

women’s right to say no
Avery