Sydney Shellhouse's timeline for "Goblin Market"

In “Goblin Market”, Christina Rossetti utilizes sexual imagery and symbolism to portray the nineteenth century reform of the “fallen woman”. In the Victorian era it was important to uphold a woman’s purity before marriage, so Rossetti is forewarning temptation and unfaithfulness while offering forgiveness through morals and repentance. In this timeline I will be outling the historical and cultural events that helped shape Christina Rossetti's approach to "Goblin Market" and her reasoning behind it.

New Granada Republic, Colombia

In this part of the story, Mary Seacole saw the people of Cruces acting as theives. Those who were captured were sent to Carthagena. Indeed when they arrive, they are subjected to suffer imporisonment, this is thanks to the New Granada, who would make sure that these theives were subjegated in the end. "Whenever an American was arrested by the New Granada authorities, justice had a hard struggle for the mastery, and rarely obtained it" (pg. 45). New Granada was the title of the SPanish colonial administration of what is now known as the republic of Colombia. 

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