• Rossetti was born in 1830 and died
in 1894
Give Rossetti’s Key Dates • First collection ('Goblin Market
Rossetti context and Other Poems') was published in
1862
• Family history • Rossetti's views about
• Deeply religious female emancipation
• Personal romantic • Contact with the
relationships pre-Raphaelites
List the main contextual factors • Work with fallen • Other female
women Victorian writers
which influenced Rossetti's work
• Lack of political lean- • Membership of
Rossetti context ing in her work Portfolio society
• Victorian ideas about
role of women
• Rossetti and her family had lots of
highly intellectual influences
Outline Rossetti’s family history • Lots of illness in her family
Rossetti context • Brother Dante was one of founders
of pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Mostly home-educated, but read Keats, Scott
and Dante (father was Italian so also read other
Italian writers)
• Home filled with scholars/artists, e.g. uncle
Describe the Rossetti family’s was John Polidori (Lord Byron's physician)
• Frances Rossetti encouraged her children to
intellectual influences
write and there was a family magazine to which
Rossetti context they contributed poems/stories; Rossetti earned
reputation as the 'poet of family' at age 11
in 1894
Give Rossetti’s Key Dates • First collection ('Goblin Market
Rossetti context and Other Poems') was published in
1862
• Family history • Rossetti's views about
• Deeply religious female emancipation
• Personal romantic • Contact with the
relationships pre-Raphaelites
List the main contextual factors • Work with fallen • Other female
women Victorian writers
which influenced Rossetti's work
• Lack of political lean- • Membership of
Rossetti context ing in her work Portfolio society
• Victorian ideas about
role of women
• Rossetti and her family had lots of
highly intellectual influences
Outline Rossetti’s family history • Lots of illness in her family
Rossetti context • Brother Dante was one of founders
of pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Mostly home-educated, but read Keats, Scott
and Dante (father was Italian so also read other
Italian writers)
• Home filled with scholars/artists, e.g. uncle
Describe the Rossetti family’s was John Polidori (Lord Byron's physician)
• Frances Rossetti encouraged her children to
intellectual influences
write and there was a family magazine to which
Rossetti context they contributed poems/stories; Rossetti earned
reputation as the 'poet of family' at age 11
