Looks at the women who influenced the Pre-Raphaelite movement in Britain, including fellow artists, models, wives, and lovers, and explains how the paintings helped shape the role of women in Victorian society

Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images of Femininity in Pre-Raphaelite Art

Jan Marsh

Biographies & Memoirs

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Back to the Land

Quartet Books

Who were those women who sat for the Pre-Raphaelite painters? Muses to an exclusively male genius, of tragic stature and uncertain health - were they indeed as passive as their portrait painters and their critics contrived to suggest? Jan Marsh reveals the actual lives behind the myth of the Pre-Raphaelite women: Elizabeth Siddal, Emma Brown, Annie Miller, Fannie Cornforth, Jane Morris and Georgina Burne-Jones. A meticulous testimony, this book records the rare vitality of these gifted and ambitious women. Delivering them from a century of masculine misrepresentation, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood is a fascinating tribute to their spirit of independence in circumstances which conspired to suppress it. It includes an intriguing set of photographs as well as reproductions of the paintings and studies they inspired.

Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Born in London in 1828, of British and Italian parentage, Dante Gabriel Rossetti became a pupil of Ford Madox Brown and later formed the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood to effect a revolution in English painting and poetry. His work in both forms was detailed, symbolic, mystical, and sometimes erotic. He was involved with two of the PRB `stunners', first Lizzie Siddal who died of a laudanum overdose, then Jane Morris. Notoriously, Rossetti buried his poetry manuscripts with Siddal, but later exhumed them. Latterly involved with William Morris's decorative arts firm, Rossetti died - a near recluse - in 1882, a Romantic Victorian revolutionary.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet

Phoenix Press 12/1/; New Ed ed

Book by Jan Marsh; And Pamela Gerrish Nunn

WOMAN ARTST &PRE-RAPHL

And Pamela Gerrish Nunn

Virago Press Ltd.

Elizabeth Siddall 1829-1862 Pre-Raphaelite Artist

Ruskin Gallery

Christina Rossetti:everyman Poetry

WEIDENFELD NICHOLSON HISTORY

The Pre-Raphaelite Circle

National Portrait Gallery

This is a study of the Bloomsbury set and its female members. The women focused on include Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Vita Sackville-West, Lydia Lopokova, Katherine Mansfield and Angelica Garnett. Their writings, letters, diaries and memoirs provide accounts of friendship, love, art, jealousy, suicide, gossip and day-to-day affairs over 40 years. The book also traces the Bloomsbury group from its beginnings to the old age of its founders, and aims to give new insight into the lives of these women.

Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures In Life And Art

Pavilion

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