Author: Stephanie E. Chatfield
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A Silent Wood
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The Poems of Elizabeth Siddal A Silent Wood O silent wood, I enter thee With a heart so full of misery For all the voices from the trees And the ferns that cling about my knees. In thy darkest shadow let me sit When the grey owls about thee flit; There will I ask of…
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Marriage Certificate of Elizabeth Siddal and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Yet again, I express my sincere gratitude to Jack Challem for sharing this treasure with lizziesiddal.com
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Handwriting Analysis of Lizzie Siddal & Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Author Jack Challem, who was kind enough to share a copy of the Rossettis marriage certificate and the first photo of Lizzie’s grave published on this site, has also been gracious enough to mail me an article he co-wrote for The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies in 1987. This is an analysis of the handwriting of…
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Photographs of Elizabeth Siddal’s Grave
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I am grateful to everyone who has been kind enough to share photos of the Rossetti plot at Highgate Cemetery, the burial place of Gabriele and Frances Rossetti (Dante Gabriel’s parents), Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti and other family members. Dante Gabriel Rossetti is not interred at Highgate; he is buried at…
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Timeline of Elizabeth Siddal’s Life
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July 25, 1829 – Birth of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (born at Charles Street, Hatton Garden) 1831 – Siddall family moves from Hatton Garden to Southwark (in South London) 1833 – Lizzie’s father, Charles, runs a business from his home at 8 Kent Place. This is the home they rented from James Greenacre, who would later…
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Transcript of Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti’s Inquest
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Appendix IV, Wife of Rossetti by Violet Hunt Note that her age was recorded as 29 instead of her actual age, 32. An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady the Queen at the precinct of Bridewell in London, on the twelfth day of February in the Twenty-fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign…
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REVIEW: Lizzie Siddal-The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
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Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites (also titled Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel) by Lucinda Hawksley This book runs to 230 pages in its paperback form, including pictures, notes and references etc. It is quite simply one of the most readable accounts of Lizzie’s life as a progressive woman, artist and poet…
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Letters Written by Elizabeth Siddal
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Reading Lizzie’s letters, although they are quite brief, gives a happy glimpse into her life. As we read her words and feel her voice, she is no longer silent on the canvas as a doomed Ophelia or an exalted Beatrice. A Letter from Lizzie to Rossetti (regarding her trip to Nice) (Published in Ruskin, Rossetti,…
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Elizabeth Siddal’s Death, Described by William Bell Scott
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Published in Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott (New York, Harper & Brothers 1892) The auguries of happiness from his marriage, entertained some of Rossetti’s friends, were frightfully dispelled. For myself, knowing Gabriel better than his brother did, though from the outside, I knew marriage was not a tie he had become…