Abstract
This article argues that Christina Rossetti's Christianity enabled her to overcome the restraints placed upon the Victorian woman writer and publish her poetry. It compares her to Gerard Manley Hopkins, the other pre-eminent Victorian Christian poet, to show that while he felt constrained by his faith to refrain from publication, she felt empowered by hers to enter the literary marketplace and seek a readership. Whereas Hopkins felt his Christianity demanded him to be silent and reclusive, qualities attributed to the ideal Victorian woman, Rossetti modelled herself more upon the masculine type of the Christian preacher, believing her poetry might serve to bring her readers closer to God
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