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.
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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
Occupation Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
In a review of the exhibition, a critic for the Athenæum praised BLSB 's Algerian landscapes.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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Jan Marsh and Pamela Gerrish Nunn's Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists reproduces several of BLSB 's works, including a sketch of Elizabeth Siddal .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists. Manchester City Art Galleries.
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Cultural formation Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Barbara Leigh Smith , Christina Rossetti , Elizabeth Siddal , Bessie Rayner Parkes , Anna Mary Howitt , and Mary Howitt conducted a series of seances at the Hermitage, the Howitt family home.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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Publishing Gillian Allnutt
GA 's second poetry pamphlet, Lizzie Siddall : Her Journal, was published in a limited edition of 250 copies, by Greville Press .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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
Friends, Associates William Allingham
He collaborated with artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal , who created illustrations for a volume of his ballads.

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