Class notes - 14/11/22
Conflict Anthology : Cousin Kate
Notes
- Christiana Rossetti (1830-1894)
- British poet : Victorian era
- Parents: Italian poets
- Subjected to depressive periods
- Religious
- Anglo-Catholic movement
- 1850s : published literary magazines
- Themes of gender & sexuality
- Never married
- Women & marriage
- Victorian era
- Subdued, attentive & chaste
- Property of their husband
- Stemmed objectification
- Barely any rights
- ‘Fallen women’
- Women who were socially unacceptable
- Prostitutes & single mothers
- Engaged as themes of Cousin Kate
Notes by A.A.
Conflict Anthology : Cousin Kate
Notes
- Christiana Rossetti (1830-1894)
- British poet : Victorian era
- Parents: Italian poets
- Subjected to depressive periods
- Religious
- Anglo-Catholic movement
- 1850s : published literary magazines
- Themes of gender & sexuality
- Never married
- Women & marriage
- Victorian era
- Subdued, attentive & chaste
- Property of their husband
- Stemmed objectification
- Barely any rights
- ‘Fallen women’
- Women who were socially unacceptable
- Prostitutes & single mothers
- Engaged as themes of Cousin Kate
Notes by A.A.