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Jonty Claypole

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

Jenny falls asleep and he goes into this sort of reverie about what makes a woman become a prostitute.

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

And he leaves a coin for her.

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

He's a guardian angel and goes.

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

And at one point in the poem, he compares Jenny to his own cousin, Nell.

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

The line goes, of the same lump, as it is said, for honour and dishonour made.

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

So we've got this relationship of two sisters, one of whom is honourable, one of whom is dishonourable.

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

We've got the kind of Laura-Lizzie relationship.

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

It goes on, two sister vessels, here is one.

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

It makes a...

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

Boom, Goblin of the Sun, he writes.

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

So we've got our goblin there in Dante Rossetti's poem.

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

So I think Christina Rossetti's leaving all these little clues that this is a poem which is a sort of repast to the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and their very aggressive sexuality and the way they treated the women around them.

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

How do I love thee?

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

Let me count the ways.

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

I love that.

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

Yeah, I love it.

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

The idea that Lizzie is also Elizabeth Browning.

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

Let's keep pulling out threads.

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

So we've got this kind of literary rivalry element.

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

We've got the riposte to pre-Raphaelite toxic masculinity.