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Category: Elizabeth Siddal and the Pre-Raphaelites

  • The Faces of Elizabeth Siddal

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    Stephanie E. Chatfield

    Elizabeth Siddal made great contributions to the Pre-Raphaelite movement; she appears in a number of important works. After posing for Deverell, Holman Hunt, Millais, and Rossetti she bravely moved to the other side of the easel and became a Pre-Raphaelite artist in her own right. She has fascinated me throughout my adulthood and today I’d…

  • Guest Post from Kirsty Stonell Walker: The Tragedy of Elizabeth Siddal

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    Stephanie E. Chatfield

    Kirsty Stonell Walker is the author of Stunner, the Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth. (Available at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk)  Kirsty originally shared this post on her blog The Kissed Mouth and I am extremely grateful that she granted me permission to post it here as well. ——– You will probably be aware by now…

  • ‘Young PRB’ by Elisabeth M. Lee: A novel of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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    Stephanie E. Chatfield

    My compliments to Elisabeth M.Lee.  To write a novelization of the early days of the Brotherhood must be an arduous task.  The Pre-Raphaelites are complicated, there is so much going on that there is a danger of the tale becoming muddied and all of the scintillating bits could overtake the narrative.  This book is not…

  • Interview with Lucinda Hawksley

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    Stephanie E. Chatfield

    Lucinda Hawksley is a best-selling author, speaker, and the great-great-great- granddaughter of Charles Dickens. If you have not yet read her biography of Lizzie Siddal: Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel, I encourage you to do so. It is an interesting and well-researched narrative of Siddal’s life. She has also recently published a biography of Charles…