Christina Rossetti’s poem 'Goblin Market' is centred on the relationship between the two female characters and sisters – Lizzie and Laura – one of whom falls subject to the rich sensory temptations of the goblins while the other seeks them out to save her sister when her need for their fruit threatens to destroy her.  The poem is strongly centred around places of safety and risk with the brookside where the girls go to gather water representing a 'threshold' space from which the calls of temptation can be heard. The spatial model straddles spatial types 4 (fantasy) and 2 (indefinite), but the symbolic roles of the hyperreal dreamspaces provided sufficient justification for the poem's inclusion in the former.