Death
Answering Questions: Lizzie’s Death
A new visitor to this site (Welcome Hope!) has posted some interesting and thought provoking questions about Lizzie’s death in the comments section of another post. I felt compelled to create a new post to try to answer her questions in a concise manner. And, as always, I am hoping that others will join in [...]
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What do you think of Lizzie’s inquest?
When I changed LizzieSiddal.com to blog format, I had hoped (and still do!) for more interaction with visitors. Based on the number of emails that I received on a daily basis, I felt sure that these people who were so willing to email me to discuss Lizzie would surely post comments on the site once [...]
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Transcript of Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti’s Inquest
NOTE: I have transcribed the Inquest of Elizabeth Siddal. This was quite a time consuming task, let me assure you! I have transcribed it verbatim. Punctuation (and the lack of it) and spelling is exactly as it was written. I did find it interesting that her age was recorded as 29 instead of her actual [...]
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Elizabeth Siddal’s Death, Described by William Bell Scott
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 that his brother did, though from the outside, I knew marriage was not a tie he had become [...]
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Reflection on the Death of Lizzie
Reflection on the Death of Lizzie Kindly contributed to this site by Gary Attlesey Georgiana Burne-Jones’ reflection on the death of Lizzie Published in Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones by Georgiana Burne-Jones (London, Macmillan & Co. Limited 1904). The story can never lose its sadness. To try to tell it afresh now, with a knowledge of [...]
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Death of a Daughter
Death of a Daughter (Kindly contributed to this site by Gary Attlesey) Death of a Daughter Published in Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones by Georgiana Burne-Jones (London, Macmillan & Co. Limited 1904) Let who will smile, but to most people the sight of a first child is one of the miracles of life, and it is [...]
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