Year 12 English Literature Ibsen and Rossetti Key Events & Comparisons

Key events in Rossetti’s life
YEAR OF REVOLUTIONS:
- 1848.
COMMUNIST MANIFESTO:
- 1848.
PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD FOUNDED:
- 1848.
ROSSETTI’S FIRST POEM PUBLISHED:
- 1848.
FIRST PRB PAINTING PUBLISHED THAT USES ROSSETTI AS THE MODEL:
- 1848.
THE CRIMEAN WAR:
- 1853/54.
ROSSETTI’S ATTEMPT TO VOLUNTEER:
- 1853/54.
BARBARA BODICHON AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS:
- 1853/54.
ROSSETTI VOLUNTEERING AT THE HIGHGATE ST MARY MAGDALENE’S HOME FOR
FALLEN WOMEN:
- 1859.
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN FOUNDED BY JESSE
BOUCHERETT:
- 1859.
GOBLIN MARKET AND OTHER POEMS PUBLISHED:
- 1862.
BRITISH ELECTORAL AND SOCIAL REFORMS:
- 1860/70.
GROWTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGNS:
- 1860/70.
CHALLENGES TO ‘THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE’ AND THE TWO SPHERE MODEL:
- 1890.
ROSSETTI’S ENGAGEMENT:
- 1848: gets engaged to James Collinson, a member of the PRB.
- 1850: engagement broken off when James converts to Catholicism.
MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY ACT:
- 1870 and 1882.
TWO SPHERE MODEL:
- Men and women have segregated roles within society: 'The Angel in the House' by
Coventry Patmore.
PAINTINGS OF ROSSETTI:
- 'Ecce Ancilla Domini': rising awkwardly from a bed as Angel Gabriel disrupts her
sleep and hands her a white lily.
- 'Christina Rossetti' (1866): avoiding male gaze
- 'The Rossetti Family' (1863): wanting to preach her perspective but is trapped (stair
rails covering her face).