Lizzie & Gabriel

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers: Rossetti and Siddal

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

I recently happened upon a 14 volume set of Little Journeys at a local second-hand bookshop. I was practically giddy with excitement to find these, especially the volume that includes Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal. I’ve scanned the book and transcribed the text. Other volumes include Christina Rossetti, William Morris, and John Ruskin. I plan on [...]

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Commemoration of Siddal and Rossetti’s marriage

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Via Hasting’s Art Forum: 150 years ago on May 23rd 1860 the Pre Raphaelite artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti married his lover and model Lizzie Siddal in St. Clements Church Hastings. Lizzie later became a fine artist and poet in her own right. Sadly just two years later she died. To commemorate the wedding there will [...]

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Mentions of Lizzie in Rossetti’s letters to his family:

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

A full textual transcription of Rossetti’s family letters can be found at The Rossetti Archive. For the purposes of this post, I have only selected letters that mention Elizabeth Siddal in an effort to see how Gabriel communicated with his family in regards to his relationship with her. Taken from Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Family-Letters [...]

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Letter from Rossetti to his brother while his “pupil” uses his studio

Monday, February 8th, 2010

In 1853, while Lizzie was known as Gabriel’s pupil, she painted in his studio while he was visiting the Scott (William Bell Scott) family in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Gabriel mentions this in a letter to his brother, William Michael Rossetti. I believe that this was when Lizzie painted her only self portrait. If you look at all [...]

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Letter Gabriel wrote to his mother announcing his marriage to Lizzie

Friday, February 5th, 2010

12 East Parade, Hastings. Friday [13 April 1860]. My Dear Mother, I write you this word to say that Lizzy and I are going to be married at last, in as few days as possible. I may be in town again first, but am not certain. If so, I shall be sure to see you; [...]

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Handwriting Analysis of Lizzie Siddal & Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Author Jack Challem, who was kind enough to share his photo of Lizzie’s grave, has also been gracious enough to mail me an article he co-wrote for The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies in 1987. This is an analysis of the handwriting of both Elizabeth Siddal and her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. I am so grateful [...]

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A Parable of Love

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

The proximity of their faces, his hand guiding hers, depicts an intimate setting. It shows a closeness that must have been felt by both Lizzie and DGR during the hours they spent together creating art at Chatham Place. Reading comments elsewhere online, I’ve seen their relationship described in a horribly dismissive way as if Rossetti [...]

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William Bell Scott on Lizzie and Rossetti’s Marriage

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

William Bell Scott on Lizzie and Rossetti’s Marriage Published in Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott (New York, Harper & Brothers 1892) W. M. R. next asks me if I knew that Gabriel is about to marry or perhaps, is now married to Miss Siddal, whom you have heard about and possibly [...]

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A Valentine from Rossetti