Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Did Elizabeth Siddal inspire Bram Stoker?

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In the early years of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, artist Walter Deverell discovered Elizabeth Siddal working in a millinery shop.  After modeling for his painting Twelfth Night, Siddal posed for several Pre-Raphaelite painters, including William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. It was the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who was most captivated by her. He drew … Read more

Hall Caine on Elizabeth Siddal’s Exhumation

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Photograph of Hall Caine by H. S. Mendelssohn

  In 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 by the … Read more