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Elizabeth Siddal and Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Hastings (New Photos!)
On the 23rd of May in 1860, Elizabeth Siddal and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were wed. Their vows were exchanged in St Clement’s Church (there is a panoramic virtual tour here). I am so grateful to Lynda...
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Book Review: Ophelia’s Muse
This review was previously posted at Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. The romance of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal lends itself well to fiction. It’s a story that has it all: beauty, pathos,...
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Did Elizabeth Siddal inspire Bram Stoker?
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...
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What shapes our perception of Elizabeth Siddal?
When beginning to research the life of Elizabeth Siddal, readers will invariably encounter this description of her, written by poet William Allingham in his diary: “Short, sad, and strange her life;...
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Lizzie Siddal Emerges from the Ghostly Mist
It would have been a perfect plot for a 1960s Hammer horror film: on the death of his wife, a poet places a treasured manuscript of his poems in her casket. Years later he has a new muse and love, a...
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The Faces of Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Siddal made great contributions to the Pre-Raphaelite movement; she appears in a number of important works. After posing for Deverell, Holman Hunt, Millais, and Rossetti she bravely moved to...
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