Cousin Kate Flashcards

All 9 cards in this deck

Who wrote ‘Cousin Kate’?

Christina Rossetti, in 1862.

Which collection is ‘Cousin Kate’ from?

Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862).

Who is the speaker of ‘Cousin Kate’?

A “cottage maiden” seduced and then abandoned by a great lord.

Whom does the lord marry in ‘Cousin Kate’?

The speaker’s cousin Kate.

What is the form of ‘Cousin Kate’?

Six eight-line stanzas; every second line rhymes.

Complete the similes from ‘Cousin Kate’: “He wore me like a silken knot, / He changed me like …”

“… a glove”

What do the neighbours call the speaker in ‘Cousin Kate’?

“an outcast thing”

What “gift” does the speaker have that Kate lacks?

Her son, the lord’s only child.

Where did Christina Rossetti work as a volunteer?

At a refuge for “fallen women” in Highgate, London.