Comments on: Elizabeth Siddal (July 25, 1829 – February 11, 1862)

By: Stephanie Pina

Stephanie Pina — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:42:56 +0000

Oh, wow, thank you! My email address is stephaniepina@lizziesiddal.com

Thank you for the well wishes!

By: lisa ellen

lisa ellen — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:07:47 +0000

Stephanie, forgot to say that several years ago i made a multi-media collage and did not know “who” it was of until i discovered Lizzy’s story. I would like to send it to you as my gift to you, for all of your wonderful PRB work.

best wishes for your husband’s healing, Lisa E.

p.s. is there some e-mail address i can send the image to? Please feel free to use my personal e-mail if you can access that here….

By: lisa ellen

lisa ellen — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:45:45 +0000

Hi Stephanie and Steve,

Thanks for looking into the mystery painting at Redhouse. I have not come back to this site for a while but was grateful for your interest in the question. I’ll dig up that article and see if there are any more specifics.

I recently watched Desperate Romantics and was sort of surprised by the liberties taken with the story historically. I’ve noticed that some of the people writing about Lizzy Siddal and the PRB’s have names that are similar to people connected to those circles at the time – such as Lucinda (Lucy Maddox Brown/ Rossetti) and Franny Moyle (Fanny Cornforth). It made me smile and wonder whether people have “come back” to restore the story!

By: Stephanie Pina

Stephanie Pina — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:16:25 +0000

I am thrilled to hear this! How wonderful!

By: Steve Green

Steve Green — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:28:49 +0000

The readers of this site may be interested to know that this year, on the 150th anniversary of her death, Red House is planning a partial restoration of the Elizabeth Siddal wall painting.

Steve

By: Stephanie Pina

Stephanie Pina — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:36:34 +0000

Alias Grace is a wonderful book, I read it for the first time several months ago. Of course, I picked it up because I saw Lizzie Siddal on the cover! It’s excellent.

By: mark

mark — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:15:21 +0000

Hi,

recently I bought a book – by M. Atwood – “alias Grace”. The content and plot very excellent – but my attraction always returned back to the book cover. I said to myself – I must and will have once a “re-print” of this picture. Today I found “on chance” – while visiting wikipedia her name “Elizabeth Siddal. I was actually engaged doing research about chaos-theory. But I´m glad, I found her name.

Thanks,

Bree

By: kate

kate — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:18:02 +0000

Hello. Would you know whether there is a book of poems written by Elizabeth Siddal available to purchase? Also, are any of her own works of art available to view at any art galleries or museums in the U.K.?

Thanking you in anticipation.

By: Stephanie Pina

Stephanie Pina — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:28:05 +0000

A good book to start with would be Lucinda Hawksley’s biography of Elizabeth Siddal. It’s excellent.
After that, Jan Marsh’s The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal is a good book to have. It’s not a straightforward biography about Lizzie, but a look at how Elizabeth Siddal has been written about by different generations of art historians and authors.
Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood (also by Jan Marsh) is also a wonderful book to have and it is my favorite Pre-Raphaelite biography. It’s not just about Elizabeth Siddal, but all the women involved with the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

By: Erin Whitcroft

Erin Whitcroft — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:34:46 +0000

Hi,

I am new to these pages and to the life of Siddal. If I was to buy one book on Siddal (to start with!) which biography would people suggest as the best?

Thanks,

Erin