After learning about her sister’s bargain with the goblins, Lizzie, who can still hear the chant, decides to take action and save Laura. Laura can no longer hear the goblins' chant and she becomes more and more anxious for the fruit, so much so that sickness overcomes her. Not knowing it was already too late for Laura, Lizzie is worried about her and proceeds to tell her the story of Jennie, a girl who suffered severe consequences after falling for the promises made by the goblins. Though the Victorian period was a time of female suppression and order, Rossetti exposed social stigmas and ideologies that are displayed through the journey of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. After taking the goblins fruit, Laura comes back home excited and restless, it seems like she cannot wait for another taste of the fruit. Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market, was written in the Victorian era during a time of vast social change across Europe.

Christina was aware that her brother's 'commercial savvy and artistic skill' helped make her first volume of poetry a success.Laura seems more reckless than her sister and falls prey to the goblins' advances she does not suspect anything foul when the goblins tell her that she needs no money to purchase their fruit, they will be happy with just a “golden curl.” She hands over “this emblem of her virginity with only a single tear, her naivité about the marketplace has condemned her to a loss far greater than she knows (Carpenter, 1991). Christina's brother, founding Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood member Dante Gabriel Rossetti, designed the frontispiece and title page illustrations in the first edition, as well as the minimal blue binding.

It contains her famous poem ' Goblin Market' and others such as 'Up-hill', 'The Convent Threshold', and 'Maude Clare.' It also includes the poem 'In the Round Tower at Jhansi, 8 June 1857', in which a British army officer takes his wife's life and his own so that they do not have to face a horrific and dishonourable death at the hands of the rebelling sepoys, commemorating the Jhokan Bagh massacre at Jhansi. Goblin Market and Other Poems is Christina Rossetti's first volume of poetry, published by Macmillan in 1862. A narrative poem (a rarity for Rossetti), it tells the story of two sisters, Laura. The role of the unstained virgin has existed longer. Throughout the poem Lizzie remains pure this is nothing new. Rossetti's efforts are to some degree successful, though she fails to solve the problem completely. Illustration for the cover of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti Goblin Market, Rossetti’s most anthologized and discussed poem, is also, at 567 lines, one of her longest. In 'Goblin Market,' Rossetti creates a rudimentary framework of behavior in which a female hero a heroine might operate.

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