Tag: Death
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Memories of Elizabeth Siddal from Georgiana Burne-Jones
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In Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, Georgiana Burne-Jones writes of Elizabeth Siddal fondly. Reading contemporary accounts of Lizzie is a thrill for me and I enjoy a small glimpse into these moments. Lizzie is first mentioned, briefly, in the chapter discussing the early days of the Rossetti/Burne-Jones friendship. This is during the happy days of their…
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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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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…