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Originally published in 1872, many of these poems are now considered childhood classics.
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Collects fifty-three poems and excerpts from longer works in verse by the English poet, selected from throughout her literary life, with a biographical introduction and a chronology.
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Writing from very different perspectives and backgrounds, Christina Rossetti and Dinah Mulock Craik were profoundly concerned with the problems of single women and female vocation. Maude, written when Rossetti was nineteen years old, reveals, with great clarity, her desires and anxieties about literary achievement within the confines of Victorian values and family restrictions. Although never seriously drawn to convent life, Rossetti became for a time an associate of one of the flourishing and controversial Anglican Sisterhoods. Craik's essay On Sisterhoods, in which she encourages unmarried women to join these organisations, shows that in offering work, responsibility and security outside the family, the sisterhoods presented a challenge to contemporary ideas about the place and duty of women. The immensely popular, progressive and optimistic A Women's Thoughts about Women emerges as an essentially rational work, urging women to act individually, collectively and above all positively,
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An introduction to colors and to poetry, for very young children.
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Her sister's love saves Laura from the poison of the fruit she bought from the goblins in the haunted glen.
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