Complete, comprehensive ready-made flashcards for Component 1 (Drama and Poetry pre-1900) OCR A Level English Literature, but could alternatively be useful for any course where you study Rossetti's poetry.
All of the contextual information you need to gain maximum marks for maximum marks for AO3 (...
• 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
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