Which image most accurately conveys your idea of Victorian womanhood? Victorian women Which image most accurately conveys your idea of Victorian womanhood? Be ready to explain why. Students chose image and explain reasons – paired activity, and class discussion (elicit ideas about fallen women, objectification of women in art, women lobbying for rights)

LO: What was the status of Victorian women? “Some of the preconceptions students bring to their study of Rossetti as a Victorian woman will be coloured by the kinds of received stereotypes than can only be dispelled by carefully focussed research.” OCR What do you think the exam board is getting at here? Exam board quote challenges students to dig deeper than usual stereotypes… quote comes from the Rossetti delivery guide We are not amused… #grumpyoldqueen

Victorian women – context workshop In groups, consider your given context. Make notes in your grid. How could your findings be significant for your study of Rossetti’s poems and A Doll’s House?

Context groups Accession of Queen Victoria: Student, Student, Student, Student, Student Florence Nightingale: Student, Student, Student, Student, Student Married Women’s Property Act (1856):Student, Student, Student, Student, Student Society for the Employment of Women (est 1860):Student, Student, Student, Student, Student Women writers:Student, Student, Student, Student, Student Students consider context in groups (L1 resource) , then rainbow out into new colour groups to share ideas from other groups – should end up with completed grids.

Context grids Key facts Possible significance for texts? Queen Victoria Florence Nightingale Married Women’s Property Act Society for the Employment of Women Women writers

Plenary Which image would you choose now to express Victorian womanhood? LO: What was the status of Victorian women?

Plenary Plus Might be interesting to discuss – as we’ll be doing The Handmaid’s Tale next…

The psyche of Rossetti Starter – if these individuals were writing in the Victorian era, what would they be writing about? What might their view be? Engage with poetry lines H/L – research different aspects of the context Cluster poems with context Canonical comparison?

= Complexities of Rossetti Rossetti Climate = Complexities of Rossetti Structure of SoL and Lessons needs to unpick this. Era Family Perspectives Pressures Religion Society Rebellion

Lesson 1 Victorian Women + Society Lesson 2 Complexities for Rossetti Big Questions which pin them together Layering of character through the poems