Elizabeth Siddal

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Standard Name: Siddal, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
Nickname: Guggums
Through her work as model and muse, ES has been firmly ensconced as an icon of Pre-Raphaelitism. However, recent feminist reassessments of her visual art and poetry are reclaiming her as artistic subject rather than object. Jan Marsh writes in the catalogue to a 1991 exhibition of ES 's work at Sheffield's Ruskin Gallery , her artistic oeuvre is small both in size and range. But it was original, serious-minded and modestly successful, and deserves to be accorded a small but significant place in the history of Pre-Raphaelite art.
Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery, 1991.
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Black-and-white drawing of Elizabeth Siddal seated with her right elbow placed in the centre of a book and her hand on her chin.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Vernon Lee
This book lost Lee the friendship of others who had admired her Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. Broken friendships included those with Oscar Wilde (refigured as the character Posthlethwaite), Jane and William Morris
Textual Features Gillian Allnutt
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
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
According to biographer Jan Marsh , she participated vicariously in the activities of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from its inception in later 1848. Yet, as Andrew and Catherine Belsey have strenuously argued, and as the life...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
That December, CR composed another haunting exploration of women's roles, particularly their place within Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics, following a visit to her brother's studio, which was crowded with pictures of Elizabeth Siddal .
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
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Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press, 1979–1990, 3 vols.
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Textual Production Violet Hunt
The Wife of Rossetti : Her Life and Death, a biography of Elizabeth Siddal , was VH 's last publication. It was praised by many writers of the time.
Rogers, John H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 162. Gale Research, 1996.
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