Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley

Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley

Before the modern supermodel, there was Lizzie Siddal, whose image captivated a generation-and whose life ended tragically in a laudanum-soaked suicide.
Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by Dante Rossetti, the young Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter who became her lover, Lizzie Siddal was one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure in London's artistic scene. Today, even those who do not know her name recognize her as Millais's doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. Exploring the many parallels to our contemporary worlds of art and fashion, Lucinda Hawksley looks behind the celebrated muse to reveal a talented poet and artist in her own right.

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley is the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She has written more than 20 books, including Lizzie Siddal, The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel (Andre Deutsch 2004) and Katey, The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter (Doubleday UK 2006). A part-time lecturer as well as a writer, Lucinda is an expert in Dickens's family life and has been awarded a fellowship to study the life of Augustus Dickens (Charles's brother and the original Boz) at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9780802715500
ISBN 10	0802715508
Title	Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites
Author	Lucinda Hawksley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Walker Books
Year published	2006-08-22
Number of pages	230
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