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Maude
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Book Overview:
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiographical, the protagonist is 15-year-old Maude Foster, a quiet and serious girl who writes poetry that explores the tensions between religious devotion and worldly desires. The text includes several of Rossetti's early verses, which were later published as part of her collections of poetry
Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiographical, the protagonist is 15-year-old Maude Foster, a quiet and serious girl who writes poetry that explores the tensions between religious devotion and worldly desires. The text includes several of Rossetti's early verses, which were later published as part of her collections of poetry
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While this work itself didn’t stand out to me in either a good or bad way, the “Prefatory Note” by Rossetti’s brother is what touched me the most.
“It appears to me that my sister's main object in delineating Maude was to exhibit what she regarded as defects in her own character, and in her attitude
Read aloud with Kate Howe’s Patreon. A very Victorian story about the coming-of-age of young Maude.
Bleak as bleak can be.
Entonces, si, por azar, piensas sobre el pasado,
di esto: pobre niña, al final se cumplió su deseo;
estéril durante su vida, y ahora en la muerte da fruto.
Para entender la importancia de esta breve novela hay que comprender que no estaba destinada a ver la luz. Christina había intentado
If anyone published my precocious writings, even just to present the author's personality and life story more than prose and verse, I'd roll _into my grave.
Painful and highly relatable.