Having eaten she then craves for more, eventually growing sickly with yearning. They are accustomed to hearing the eerie calls of the goblin merchants selling their exotic fruits pass near the house, until one day Laura, despite her sister’s warnings, succumbs to curiosity and tastes the fruits. Its story follows two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who live by themselves in a little house near a wood.
It is a fairy tale, an allegory of sin and redemption and a feminist tribute to the powers and bonds of sisterly love all in one, though there have been many more critical interpretations besides. So begins Goblin Market, one of Christina Rossetti’s most popular and distinctive poems and an acknowledged classic of Victorian literature. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘Christina Rossetti’, September 1866
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