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Jonty Claypole

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

And in the poem, it's Laura's golden hair that attracts the goblins and she has to cut off a lock and give it to them in order to get the fruit.

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

Another smoking quill here is there is in the poem when Laura has gone into this state of sex and opium withdrawal after the goblin incident and is wasting away, thinking only of the goblins and their fruit.

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

The other sister remembers the story of Jeannie, who was a woman who gave in to the goblins before and remembers what happened to Jeannie.

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

And I think, again, this is a reference to a long poem that her brother, Dante Gabriele Rossetti, was writing called Jenny.

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

The narrator of the poem picks up this prostitute called Jenny, goes back home with her, but doesn't do anything because in the poem he's positioning himself as the virtuous male.

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.