A Sanctuary for Sisterhood

In 1848, a group of idealistic young British artists formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Contrary to what their moniker implied, the lives and works of the Pre-Raphaelites were indelibly shaped and formed by the women in their circle.

The PreRaphaeliteSisterhood.com site aims to elevate and discuss female Pre-Raphaelite painters, poets, and models and the world they lived in. Join us on a rollicking ride and an ebullient exploration of 19th century art – and what it reveals about our culture today.

Everyone is welcome here. If you are curious about the women of the Pre-Raphaelite era, please consider yourself part of our present-day Pre-Raphaelite sisterhood!

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“My brother was the first to observe her. Her face was at once tragic, mystic, passionate, calm, beautiful and gracious – a face for a sculptor, and a face for a painter – a face solitary in England…”
William Michael Rossetti Describing Jane Burden Morris
“To start with I was nothing, but then the merest sweep of his pencil gave a hint of what I would become.”
Kirsty Stonell Walker Writing as Alexa Wilding in A Curl of Copper and Pearl.
“I wish it were possible to explain the impression made upon me as a young girl whose experience so far had been quite remote from art, by sudden and close intercourse with those to whom it was the breath of life. The only approach I can make to describing it is by saying that I felt in the presence of a new religion. Their love of beauty did not seem to me unbalanced, but as if it included the whole world.” 
Georgiana Burne-JonesOn her introduction to the Pre-Raphaelites in Memorials of Burne-Jones

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