Rossetti Context

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  • Where was Rossetti born?
    London in 1830
  • What happened when she was 14?

    She was isolated after being diagnosed with religious mania after a nervous breakdown
  • What movement was Dante Rossetti a founding member of?
    Pre-Raphaelite
  • Who was she engaged to in her late teens?
    James Collinson
  • Who was No, Thank you, John about?
    John Brett, who proposed to her
  • Where did Rossetti volunteer at?
    St Mary Magdalene penitentiary
  • How did Rossetti view women?
    Not as equals to men but empathically different based on her religious beliefs
  • What lit in her childhood influenced her work
    Gothic Literature