Maude/on Sisterhoods and a Woman's Thoughts About Women

Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
Secondary Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
ISBN: 0814774512

Showalter's thoughtful, detailed introductory essay is a comprehensive analysis between Rosetti's novella and Craik's essays...the biographical portrait of Christina Rossetti's conflicts makes her a vivid example of the psychological and social barriers to the development of the female poets...her description of Dinah Mulock Craik stressed this woman's common-sense approach to ameliorating the position of the working-class woman in society...useful to students of feminist theory and of Victorian literature. -- Academic Library Book Review Cristina Rossetti was nineteen years old when she wrote Maude: Prose and Verse in 1850. Clearly autobiographical, the novel examines the heroine's endeavor to resist the notion that modesty, virtue and domesticity constitute the sole duties of womanhood. For the precocious young poet, the work was only one of several projects of her teens. Growing up in London as the youngest child in a gifted and unusual family of artists and writers, Rossetti had ea

Publisher: New York University Press
Publish Date: 1995-05

Subjects: Women, Health & Fitness / Sexuality, Literary Collections / General, Literary Criticism / Feminist, Literary Criticism / Women Authors, Social Science / Women's Studies

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