with 10,000 copies sold in the United States in its first week only, and it is believed to have influenced the American Civil War. According to popular legend, when Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe met in 1862 he greeted her by saying “So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War." (Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Slavery, and the Civil War, n.d), revealing the great impact her writing had in American
Contrastingly, Rossetti originally claimed that ‘Goblin Market’ was a fairytale, suggesting that she perceives the events as being far removed from her society. Some of the biblical imagery in Goblin market suggests that in a patriarchal world unjust laws separate and divide people into hierarchies, this claim is backed up as Christina Rossetti believed that the only place where this was not the case was: "in Christ where there is neither male nor female, for we are all one", portraying her desire
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin