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BooksPosted onFebruary 19, 2013January 4, 2015

This is what Pre-Raphaelite obsession leads to

About a year ago, I was lucky enough to acquire a two volume set of The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, written…

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BooksPosted onFebruary 24, 2012January 4, 2015

Undine

I’ve recently read Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Written in the early 1800s, it is a classic fairy tale in which Undine, an…

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PersonalPosted onJanuary 31, 2012January 4, 2015

I am Wonder Woman

My husband is in the hospital again.  Still dealing with the repercussions from his accident last May.  It’s more serious this time.  An infection has…

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PersonalPosted onJanuary 6, 2012January 4, 2015

New Year, New Project

I am exhausted. On a whim, I decided to paint my living area and kitchen red. I’ve always wanted red walls. I think they are…

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PersonalPosted onNovember 24, 2011July 12, 2017

A Simple Answer

This blog generates a lot of email.  I try my best, but I can’t always answer it all.  Often I will receive an email that…

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PersonalPosted onOctober 6, 2011January 3, 2015

But in her web she still delights

I’m lucky enough to have regular readers here at Pre-raphaelite Sisterhood and several lovely followers on the accompanying Facebook page. The Facebook page has been…

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PersonalPosted onAugust 10, 2011January 4, 2015

Thank you

I want to thank you all.  I rarely post anything personal here since I don’t want to deviate from the subject of this site. Anything…

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PersonalPosted onMay 26, 2011January 3, 2015

Immersed in Sidonia

I’m still reading Sidonia the Sorceress and am actually surprised at how much I’m enjoying it.  I spent most of the weekend reading and jotting…

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Christina RossettiPosted onFebruary 1, 2011January 3, 2015

I Lock My Door Upon Myself

  Fernand Khnopff was not a Pre-Raphaelite painter, but I wanted to share his 1891 painting I Lock My Door Upon Myself which draws inspiration…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onNovember 1, 2010January 3, 2015

Embracing Autumn

It is the first of November and we have followed All Hallow’s Eve into All Soul’s Day.  Autumn is a season that excites all the…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onFebruary 24, 2010January 3, 2015

Winter Reading

The weather has been unusually cold and yesterday’s snow made my little neighborhood look like a different and more enchanting place.   I loved yesterday.  It…

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BooksPosted onJanuary 7, 2010January 3, 2015

The Mirror!

In this previous post, I mentioned a mirror seen in Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor by Burne-Jones and also in The Return of Tibullus to…

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PersonalPosted onDecember 31, 2009January 3, 2015

Happy 2010!

I am looking forward to a new year!  I send you all good wishes as we begin this new decade.  I do not usually make…

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PersonalPosted onDecember 15, 2009January 3, 2015

In which we discuss multi-faceted mirrors

Tonight I was browsing through images and happened upon The Return of Tibullus to Delia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.  This painting interests for many reasons,…

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