rossetti's most famous collection, "goblin market and other poems", appeared in 1862, when she was 31. it received widespread critical praise, establishing her as the foremost female poet of the time. hopkins, swinburne and tennyson lauded her, and with the death of elizabeth barrett browning in 1861 she was hailed as her natural successor. the title poem is one of rossetti's best known. although it is ostensibly about two sisters' misadventures with goblins, critics have interpreted the piece in a variety of ways, seeing it as an allegory about temptation and salvation, a commentary on victorian gender roles and female agency, and a work about erotic desire and social redemption. rossetti was a volunteer worker from 1859 to 1870 at the st mary magdalene house of charity in highgate, a refuge for former prostitutes, and it is suggested that "goblin market" may have been inspired by the "fallen women" she came to know. there are parallels with coleridge's "the rime of the ancient mariner" in both poems' religious themes of temptation, sin and redemption by vicarious suffering. swinburne in 1883 dedicated "a century of roundels" to rossetti, as she adopted his roundel form in a number of poems, for instance in "wife to husband". she was ambivalent about women's suffrage, but many scholars have found feminist themes in her poetry. she opposed slavery (in the american south), cruelty to animals (in the prevalent practice of animal experimentation), and the exploitation of girls in under-age prostitution.