Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books.
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death | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
died of a large overdose of laudanum. This was officially deemed an accident, but was likely suicide, as suggested by a note which Dante Gabriel Rossetti
suppressed; she had been pregnant again, and unwell... |
death | Elizabeth Siddal | |
death | Elizabeth Siddal | Dante Gabriel Rossetti
collected ES
's extant drawings and sketches and had them photographed and put into folios as a memorial for friends. Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists by Jan Marsh and Pamela Gerrish Nunn reproduces a... |
Violence | Elizabeth Siddal | Dante Gabriel Rossetti
had ES
's coffin exhumed so he could retrieve from it the manuscript of his poems. Marsh, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. Quartet Books. 258-9 Sheets, Robin Lauterbach. “Pornography and Art: The Case of ‘Jenny’”. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 14 , pp. 315-34. 333 Doughty, Oswald. A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Oxford University Press. 417 |
Education | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
was trained in dressmaking and later studied painting informally, in her connection with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
, from such artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and Ford Madox Brown
. Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago. 65, 66 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Siddal | She met these progressive women, all committed to women's independent work, through Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. They took a strong interest in ES
, whom Smith saw as a genius despite being under a ban... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
did not meet Dante Gabriel
's mother, Frances Lavinia Rossetti
, until April 1855, when he introduced them. Thereafter, it was assumed that the couple were at least unofficially engaged. Ruskin seems to have... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Siddal | Despite Rossetti
's protestations of love and promises of marriage, his relationship with ES
faltered in the spring of 1856 after her return to London. Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery. 15 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Siddal | The suggestion for publishing these poems had been made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, but he made no further effort to publish them. ES
's work therefore languished until William Michael Rossetti
gathered his family's... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Siddal | Jan Marsh, whose books on ES
are the most sustained studies to date, has done much to raise awareness of ES's significance in the Pre-Raphaelite movement and of the interest of both her visual and... |
Literary responses | Anna Steele | The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book. The Academy. 11 (3 February 1877): 91 |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | After leaving Eton
, he met Lady Pauline
and Walter Trevelyan
, who became longtime friends and supporters. At Oxford he was first introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites
, and he forged friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Residence | Algernon Charles Swinburne | In 1862 ACS
shared a house with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, William Michael Rossetti
, and George Meredith
in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. (Meredith and William Michael were there only intermittently.) Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 12-13 |
Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
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