Lizzie Siddal

Before the modern supermodel, there was Lizzie Siddal, whose image captivated a generation-and whose life ended in a laudanum-soaked suicide. Saved from a working-class existence by Dante Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelite artist who was her lover, Siddal became recognizable throughout Victorian Britain as Millais's doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. Lucinda Hawksley looks behind the celebrated muse to reveal a talented woman in her own right.

About the author

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley is the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She has written more than 20 books, including Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel, March Women March, Dickens and Christmas, and Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter. A part-time lecturer as well as a writer, Lucinda is an expert in Dickens' family life and was recently awarded a fellowship to study the life of Augustus Dickens (Charles's brother and the original "Boz") at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Summary

This biography of the Pre-Raphaelite artists' muse takes Lizzie from the background of Dante Rossetti's life and, finally, brings her to the forefront of her own.

Product details

• Authors: Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, Lucinda Hawksley, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, Hawksley Lucinda
• Publisher: Andre Deutsch
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780233005072
• ISBN: 978-0-233-00507-2
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ART / History / Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelite, Biography: arts & entertainment, Social and cultural history, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art, model, artist, suicide, Blackf, Portraits and self-portraiture in the arts