Fr. 27.90

Lizzie Siddal

English · Hardback

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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.

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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.

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