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Jonty Claypole

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Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And Christina Rossetti was the Amy Allen of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And just to really drive this home, I looked up a fan site for the A-Team to get Amy Allen spot.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And it says, So that's more or less what happens.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

But what Christina does do is she, these seven men who are trooping past the drawing room to go upstairs and bang on about their ideas of art.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

One of them, the sort of minor member who nobody remembers anymore, is a chap called James Collinson.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

He's the butt of everyone's jokes.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And he proposes to Christina and she accepts.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And for a while she is engaged to James Collinson.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And he resigns from the Pre-Raphaelites because in 1850, Millais exhibits a painting called Christ and the House of His Parents.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

It's one of the most famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And it's a kind of hyper-realist depiction of the young Christ with his father, the carpenter, in the workshop.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

Millais used friends of his as models.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And the critics were appalled because all of the mystery was...

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

all of the negative capability of Christianity seemed to have been torn away.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And people complained that the young Christ looked like a street urchin and the Virgin Mary looked like a whore.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And it's accused of blasphemy.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And James Collinson at this point resigns because he's very religious and decides that he can't be associated with them anymore.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And then, as you say, the engagement falls apart.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And actually, by 1853, the Brotherhood is sort of over, although it expands outwards in other ways.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

It draws in artists like William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones and becomes the dominant English aesthetic, certainly in the visual arts of the late 19th century.