My personal views on Lizzie

“So, why do you do this Lizzie Siddal thing?”

Once someone asked me why I spend so much time creating a site about a woman who committed suicide years and years ago. Although I am not asked that question often, I can’t shake this feeling that there are people I know that can’t quite grasp why I started this site.  On the one hand, [...]

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Thoughts on birth and Elizabeth Siddal

I write this as the mother of three children and, thankfully,  have never suffered the tragedy of a stillbirth as Elizabeth Siddal did.   I discovered Lizzie early in my adulthood, yet it was after the birth of my second child that my interest in her grew and I felt a strong urge to seek out [...]

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Why Elizabeth Siddal?

Why am I such an admirer of Elizabeth Siddal? What is it about her that captures my interest and imagination? Am I teetering on the brink of obsession as time and time again I am driven to find more information about her? Perhaps it is a mystery even to myself. Admittedly, her art (although full [...]

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