LECTURE 17

THE WOMAN QUESTION (cont.)
A constellation of questions (1581/1719):
1. Status in marriage? 2. Education?
3. Occupation/Vocation/Profession? (Wife? Mother? Governess? Nurse?)
4. The Vote (1867: J. S. Mill)

John Stuart Mill
Introduction and On Liberty (1859)

The Subjection of Women (1869)
--Compare Wollstonecraft: both treatises
--1061-2: "natural" = custom or habit?
--1063-4: Educating willing slaves
--1064-5: Liberty characterizes Modernity
--1065-6: the "nature" of women = artificial
--1069: Angel: if natural, why legislate?

Christina Rossetti
--Google: "Rossetti Archive";
Lizzie Siddal, Fanny Cornforth, Alexa Wilding, Jane Morris
--The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

"Goblin Market" (c. 1860/pub.1862)
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1. What are the fruit?
2. Who are the goblin men?
3. What does the fruit do to women?
4. What do L&L do for a living?
5. Naughty Laura, no money; a curl?
Nice Lizzie, a silver penny?
6. What is the antidote?
7. What is the allegorical meaning?

Further reading: Dorothy Mermin, "Heroic Sisterhood in 'Goblin Market'" in Victorian Poetry 21.2 (1983): 107-118.
Herbert F. Tucker, "Rossetti's Goblin Marketing: Sweet to Tongue and Sound to Eye," Representations 82 (Spring 2003): 117-33.