Most of Christina Rosetti's poem and art was surrounded around the Oxford Movement. The Oxford Movement is a movement of high members of the Church of England that eventually devloped into Anglo-Catholicism. Their philosophy was known as tractarianism.  Christina joined the oxford movement alolng with her mother and sister in the early 1840s. Her sister became an Angelican nun and that is where she started working with the Angeliccan sisterhood at the Highgate Penitetiary. Which is the inspiration behind the Goblin Market.

The Church Penitentiary Association was affilated with the Church of England and founded in 1852 for the reformation of fallen women who had been servants to others. The association was part of a movement to provide places of rehabilitation and shelter for citizens such as prostitutes or homeless people. The penitentiaries were similar to Catholic convents in that the penitents were to remain celibate while they were in the penitentiary.

The Church Penitentiary Association was affilated with the Church of England and founded in 1852 for the reformation of fallen women who had been servants to others. The association was part of a movement to provide places of rehabilitation and shelter for citizens such as prostitutes or homeless people. The penitentiaries were similar to Catholic convents in that the penitents were to remain celibate while they were in the penitentiary.