Rossetti critical quotes

• Byecroft (2003): 'the female voice was suppressed in society'
• Curran (1971): 'She only has one real subject, mortality'
• Dr Ross Wilson (2016): 'Rossetti the religious poet… Rossetti the woman's poet… Rossetti the poet of melancholy'
• Blake (1991): 'She disassociated herself from the suffrage movement and thought women's rights and Christianity were at odds'
• Avery (2010): 'Escape from gender expectations and imposed identities'
• O'Reilly (1996): 'Goblin Market: A poem about temptation, resistance and redemption'
• O'Reilly (1996): 'Lizzie typifies Christ'
• O'Reilly (1996): 'Laura appears to be suffering absinthism'
• Palazzo (2002): 'Rossetti has radically rewritten the Fall of Eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women which she sees around her'
• William Rossetti (1904): 'An...often sadly smitten individual'
• Virginia Woolf (1918): 'she starved herself of love, which meant also life'