Today is the anniversary of Lizzie’s tragic death due to a Laudanum overdose. So in honor of that, I’ve decided to share Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s sonnet Without Her: What of the glass without her? The blank grey There where the pool is blind of the…
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Lucinda Hawksley is a best-selling author, speaker, and the great-great-great- granddaughter of Charles Dickens. If you have not yet read her biography of Lizzie Siddal: Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel, I encourage you to do so. It is an interesting and well-researched narrative of Siddal’s…
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