Women during the Victorian Era experienced some brutal battles, similar to those expressed in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” and Elizabeth Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti both present the themes, the cruelty of women and the necessity of family’s love to thoroughly describe their hardships and braveness for one another. Rossetti’s character encounters assault to aid her sister out of depression, while Browning’s kills her child to prevent her from going into slavery. The two themes are evident throughout and are designated to explain and show the effects the Victorian era had on individuals. “Goblin Market” is a poem by Christina Rossetti, that portrays the sisterhood
