The Women's Review of Books, July 1st, 1994
My soul is as a hidden fount Shut in by clammy clay That struggles with an upward moan, Striving to force its way.
VICTORIAN IDEOLOGY worked hard to persuade women to suffer, be still, and stay chaste and pious at home. Christina Rossetti's fiery nature showed itself, perversely, in her insistence on saying no--to marriage, to motherhood, to a room of her own, to friendship, to society, to travel, to dangerous books, to pleasure, it seems, even of the most tiny and innocuous kind. Many contemporaries, obscurely shamed perhaps by this radical espousal of their ideology, reproached Christina ...
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