Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Only twelve pages long, GA 's pamphlet is a successful sustained attempt to inhabit the mind ofElizabeth Eleanor Siddal , a dressmaker, artist and poet,who became the Pre-Raphaelites' favourite model, married D. G. Rossetti

One of her travelling companions (and a close friend) was the New Woman novelist Mona Caird (famous for her declaration calling the institution of marriage a vexatious failure in the Westminster Review in 1888).

In spring 1854 Barbara Leigh Smith took care of Elizabeth Siddal , Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's ailing fiancé and model, at her house near Hastings. Her ties to the Pre-Raphaelite circle later weakened, but...

It was initially ridiculed by critics for its apparent obscurity. RB 's biographer Donald Thomas calls it one of the greatest literary disasters in the history of English poetry on account of its unexpectedly...

Shortly before her death, MEC finished her work on an illustrated life of the still-living Pre-Raphaelite artist Holman Hunt.

Hunt asked her to produce the book for the Masterpieces in Colour series. It was posthumously published in 1908. It reflects MEC 's life-long passion for art and for the Pre-Raphaelites .

The artistic pursuits of EG 's daughter Meta produced friendships with John Ruskin and with Pre-RaphaelitesWilliam Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .

IDH may have had an interest in Pre-Raphaelite art, since in 1872 she composed a letter in support of renowned painter Ford Madox Brown 's nomination to a professorship at Cambridge .

VH 's father, Alfred William Hunt , was born in Liverpool on 15 November 1830. He associated with (though he was not a formal member of) the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . In 1932 VH called herself...

Elgee's translation gained this novel a wider audience. In later years Dante Gabriel Rossetti developed a positive passion for it, and it became very popular with the Pre-Raphaelites .Edward Burne-Jones produced watercolours of...

The Athenæum complained that her self-described Pre-Raphaelite style was weak and overworn, and again counselled that without writing moresimpy she would hardly produce a tale of which the success will bear any...

On 26 April 1859, WM married Jane Burden , a Pre-Raphaelite muse who had posed both for him and for Dante Gabriel Rossetti . In 1861 and 1862, Jane gave birth to two daughters.

Her poem Any Husband to Many a Wife (whose title marks it as a response to Robert Browning 's Any Wife to Any Husband) is a sardonic comment on marital relations. The husband in...

Besides this visiting of the homes of the originally poor, EJP enjoyed embroidery and was also a skilled painter of flowers. She took an interest in the artistic productions of her pre-Raphaelite contemporaries.

She concludes that his intellectual powers are of the most brilliant description; but there is, we deliberately aver, not one single great moral quality in their application. In general, Ruskin's writings have all the qualities...