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Re-Reading Sisterhood in Christina Rossetti's "Noble Sisters" and "Sister Maude"
- SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 43, Number 4, Autumn 2003
- pp. 859-875
- 10.1353/sel.2003.0045
- Article
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Abstract
This essay examines the representation of women's relationships in two Christina Rossetti poems, "Noble Sisters" and "Sister Maude." Both poems were composed after "Goblin Market" and, notably, after she had begun volunteering at Highgate Penitentiary, a home for fallen women. Considering these poems in the context of Rossetti's work at Highgate reveals that her beliefs about the potential of women's communities changed after her experience working there. By noting this shift in her representation of women's relationships, this essay argues for a reconsideration of the primacy of "Goblin Market" in estimations of Rossetti's politics.
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