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APPLITN OF LBIAN AND GAY “QUEER” CRICISM
It is also very, very gay.
Bis, I uldn’t stop hearg that all-too faiar voice, tellg me to “stop makg everythg gay. Their iend Jeanie has done this before them, wh the rult that she “who for joys bris hope to have / Fell sick and died / In her gay prime” (ll. ” In the poems Gobl Market and No, Thank You, John, Christa Rossetti subverts the ia that female characters mt rema submissive and rigned to accept nventnal heterosexual, male-domated relatnships which were promoted patriarchal Victorian society, and should stead embrace pennce, sisterhood and homosexualy.