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| Name: |
Christina Georgina Rossetti | | Birth Date: |
December 5, 1830 | | Death Date: |
December 29, 1894 | | Place of Birth: |
London, England | | Place of Death: |
London, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
poet |
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 Biography of Christina Georgina Rossetti
559 words, approx. 1.9 pages
 The English poet Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) wrote poems of love, fantasy, and nature, verses for children, and devotional poetry and prose. Christina Rossetti was born on Dec. 5, 1830, in London, the youngest of the four remarkable Rossetti... summary from source:
 Biography of Christina (Georgina) Rossetti
11807 words, approx. 39.4 pages
 Of all Victorian women poets, posterity has been kindest to Christina Rossetti. Her poetry has never disappeared from view, and her reputation, though it suffered a decline in the first half of the twentieth century, has always been preserved to some deg... summary from source:
Biography of Christina (Georgina) Rossetti
6742 words, approx. 22.5 pages
The publication in 1862 of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems marked the first literary success of the Pre-Raphaelites. Since then her poetry has never lacked readers, and it has stood the test of time better than the work of many of her...
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 “The Goblin Market” Summary
5,281 words, approx. 18 pages“The Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti The youngest of four children in a family of scholars and artists, Christina Georgina Rossetti was born in 1830. Her mother, Frances Polidori, was a staunch Anglican of English and Italian descent,... summary from source:
 Goblin Market Information
1,015 words, approx. 3 pages
Goblin Market (composed in April, 1859 and published in 1862 ) is an important poem by Christina Rossetti . Throughout her lifetime, Rossetti claimed that the poem, which features remarkably sexual imagery , was a children's poem. When the poem...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Elizabeth K. Helsinger
12,791 words, approx. 43 pages
In the essay below, Helsinger reviews "Goblin Market" as a "fantasy of consumer power, where the empowered consumer is a woman," concluding that such power is gained by women through the "withholding of desire" and that the poem describes a Utopian withdrawal from the economics of sex and marriage.
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Critical Essay by Mary Wilson Carpenter
9,131 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Carpenter suggests that "Goblin Market" presents a radical view of women's bodies and appetites that was influenced by Rossetti 's participation in the Oxford Movement's "women's mission to women," in which she worked with prostitutes and homeless women.
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Critical Essay by Lona Mosk Packer
9,034 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Packer argues that the symbolism—which is often vague—in "Goblin Market" reflects the realities of Rossetti 's life, just as the symbols in her other works correspond with her life, and that the poem should not be read simply as a "Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece."
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