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The (Mostly) Complete Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
Discover the poignant and powerful voice of a forgotten Victorian poet in The (Mostly) Complete Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal. This beautifully produced hardback volume is the first popular edition to bring together all fifteen known, complete poems of Siddal (1829-1862), a significant figure in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who never saw her work published during her lifetime. Key Features: - Format and Size: This pocket-sized edition measures 4.15 x 5.8 inches, making it perfect for carrying everywhere in your purse, camera bag, or jacket pocket. - Victorian Elegance: The book features a debossed cover with gold foil lettering, harkening back to the beautiful books of the Victorian era. - Comprehensive Collection: Includes all fifteen known poems of Elizabeth Siddal, giving her words the space and attention they deserve to be appreciated. - Insightful Essay: Features an essay by award-winning writer and photographer Kyle Cassidy, who brought these poems together for this edition. - Companion Volume: Published as a companion to This is Only Earth, My Dear, a collection of photographs inspired by Siddal's poetry by Trillian Stars and Kyle Cassidy.
My Ladys Soul
Edited collection of Elizabeth Siddall's extant poems, including critical analysis, biographical commentary, and contextual material. Also features illustrations, some by Siddall herself.
Ophelia's Muse
"I'll never want to draw anyone else but you. You are my muse. Without you there is no art in me." With her pale, luminous skin and cloud of copper-colored hair, nineteen-year-old Lizzie Siddal looks nothing like the rosy-cheeked ideal of Victorian beauty. Working in a London milliner's shop, Lizzie stitches elegant bonnets destined for wealthier young women, until a chance meeting brings her to the attention of painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Enchanted both by her ethereal appearance and her artistic ambitions--quite out of place for a shop girl--Rossetti draws her into his glittering world of salons and bohemian soirees. Lizzie begins to sit for some of the most celebrated members...
Lizzie Siddal
The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation. Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young Pre-Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure of London's artistic world, until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 1862. In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know her name always recognise her face: she is Millais's doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. With many parallels in the modern-day world of art and fashion, this biography takes Lizzie from the background of Dante Rossetti's life and, finally, brings her to the forefront of her own.
Christina Rossetti's Gothic
The poetry of Christina Rossetti is often described as ‘gothic' and yet this term has rarely been examined in the specific case of Rossetti's work. Based on new readings of the full range of her writings, from ‘Goblin Market' to the devotional poems and prose works, this book explores Rossetti's use of Gothic forms and images to consider her as a Gothic writer. Christina Rossetti's Gothic analyses the poet's use of the grotesque and the spectral and the Christian roots and Pre-Raphaelite influences of Rossetti's deployment of Gothic tropes.
Over Her Dead Body
In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs. The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
Pre-Raphaelite Paintings from Manchester City Art Galleries
Includes a general history of the movement
