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Christina Rosetti
- Celebrated artistic family brother was the promising pre – Raphaelites Dante
Rossetti
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Dante scholar – his interest in Dante
amounted to something close to an obsession
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- Home was a centre for Italian life
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- 4 children
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Oldest was Maria – also very interested in
Dante and published on him
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- Dante Gabriel – painter, pre- Raphaelites, poet,
- William Michael Rossetti – was a civil servant, esciest, and a critic
- Close and lively group of children
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Mother was a devout Anglican as indeed
Christina became
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- Cheerful, confident, bouncy child, tantrums, stormy
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- When she hit puberty, her personality did seem to shift into something more
troubled
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Became more religious, her life had an undertone of
melancholy
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Never came repressed to the extent that she lost her
forcefulness
- Brother Dante was a prominent co-founder of the pre- Raphaelites (created in 1848)

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She didn’t want to become a
member, but she was around in the home as the pre- Raphaelites were meeting
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- Becomes one of the classical faces of pre-Raphaelites – sitting being someone else,
sitting as the virgin Mary, the annunciation life of Christ
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- Devoted Anglican women
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- 1943 she, her mother and sister attended Christ church in Albany Street where
under William Dodsworth who had been significantly influenced under Pusey
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Focus on the Eucharist
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Her understanding of consumption and consuming – reflected by the tactarian
return to the Eucharist
- Eucharist – did she really believe that she was actually taking the body and blood of
the Christ? Temptation, holy moment, sacrifice, communion
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- Anglican – still protestant – shaped her every day, daily prayer, daily reading of the
bible
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- Tactarian – religiosity that was very scholarly
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Tholos
themselves
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Engaged 1848-1850 – James Collinson
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He was a high Anglican, tactarianist, part of the congregation of Christ church augany
street where he met the Rosetti’s
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She was a high Anglican but she drew a firm line before you got
to Roman Catholicism
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16th century reformation
consisted not of a move of the anglo church or Protestantism but a move of
Catholicism that rejected the moves of patecy
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Rome was a deviant branch
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Collinson then re-converted back to high Anglicanism –
she accepted his proposal
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In the course of the 2 years
his religious feelings overcame his romantic feelings and he went back to Rome
again
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At that point, it looked like
he was going to become a celebrated roman catholic church priest
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He became a painter and then married someone else
1860s Scholar Charles Caley proposed but she turned him down because he was
agnostic and was not religious enough
john Bret – found of her but never actually proposed
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Inspiration for
the poem no thank you john
Breakdown at 15 - uncertain diagnosis
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Graves’
disease had from 1870s can have serious psychological problems
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Benign consequence
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Poems were published by her grandfather and there was some in the pre-Raphaelite
magazine
Goblin marker – published at 31
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Description of fruit is like pre-Raphaelite
Lots of Rossetti’s work there is a focus around 2 sisters’ – availability or roles for
women
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Maria more religious – more devout
than she was
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When she was younger
she wanted to east Strawberries but Maria said be careful their wad cankers in them
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Worked with fallen women
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William Dodsworth – vicar at Christ church at alborney street was a tactarian, a high
Anglican – he also started the belief of soul sleep which was a theory about what
happened to you after you died
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CR makes a lot of use of that idea ‘silent land’
Religious doctrines – nourish her poetry
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Understanding of god is coded and put into a

meek reserve and type of language that does often rely on things such as figurative
language and metaphors has to work to get to cornoal
- Result of it implies a centrual mystery that needs to be uncovered
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Quite
often she only gives half the verse
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Reserve type of discourse
- Winter my secret results in a type of wintery poetic
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Links to dodsworths idea of soul sleep, this idea that
we are in a waiting period which is like winter
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‘no more day by day
you tell me of our future that we planned’ “OUR’ “YOU” - constraint
- Reverberations of something other
- Louis carol was a friend of the family – an admirer of hers
Not supporting the suffrage – has a strong sense of hierarchy and patriarchy within the
church
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Bessy Parks, Anna Harrowwhich
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Religionist – feminine principles – Lizzie in goblin market
- Poems are crowded by men who are inadequate –
- She said mothers would make good Mp’s as they know how to run families



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