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Hall Caine on Elizabeth Siddal’s Exhumation

I have been reading Hall Caine’s Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He touches briefly on Lizzie’s exhumation to retrieve the manuscript of poems that DGR had placed in her coffin: Rossetti had buried the only complete copy of his poems with his wife at Highgate, and for a time he had been able to put [...]

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