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  • About Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
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  • What is Pre-Raphaelite Art?
  • Unexpected Pre-Raphaelite Sightings
  • Contact
  • Books,  Elizabeth Siddal,  poetry

    My Ladys Soul: The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddall

    October 10, 2018

    Elizabeth Siddall is a strikingly familiar face to Pre-Raphaelite lovers. She is known to many as Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s muse and the face of Millais’ doomed Ophelia. But she was more than that. Through her own artwork and poetry, we can look beyond her face and attempt to hear her voice. A new edition of her poetry has magnified that…

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  • Personal,  poetry,  Pre-Raphaelite Subjects and Themes,  William Morris

    Love is Enough

    July 18, 2017

    William Morris’ Love is Enough has been on my mind this morning. “He makes a poem these days–in dismal Queen Square in black old filthy London in dull end of October he makes a pretty poem that is to be wondrously happy; and it has four sets of lovers in it and THEY ALL ARE HAPPY and it ends well, and…

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  • Dante Alighieri,  Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  Elizabeth Siddal,  poetry

    Tragic Lovers

    June 25, 2017

    Early Death by Elizabeth Siddal Oh grieve not with thy bitter tears The life that passes fast; The gates of heaven will open wide And take me in at last. Then sit down meekly at my side And watch my young life flee; Then solemn peace of holy death Come quickly unto thee. But true love, seek me in the…

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  • Christina Rossetti,  Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  fairy tales,  poetry

    Goblin Market

    December 5, 2016

    “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits:” Written in 1859 by  Christina Rossetti (sister to Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Goblin Market is a narrative poem of two sisters who encounter temptation. It is a complex poem–almost too complex to delve into for a blog post simply because it is hard to narrow it down to…

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  • Elizabeth Siddal,  poetry

    Lizzie Siddal: Love and Hate

    July 20, 2016

    Many people hear about Elizabeth Siddal through dramatic anecdotes of her life, such as the serious illness she suffered as a result of  posing in a bathtub for Sir John Everett Millais’ Ophelia (above). In 1860 she married artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti and died a mere two years later of a laudanum overdose.  The fact that Rossetti had her exhumed…

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Stephanie Graham Piña is an independent scholar whose research focuses on Victorian Art, especially the Pre-Raphaelites. In 2004 she created LizzieSiddal.com, a resource for those interested in the life of Pre-Raphaelite model and painter Elizabeth Siddal. She established her website ‘The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood’ in 2007 to highlight the work of women artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Circle. Through her popular online publications, she has been a leading advocate of independent research and discourse on Victorian art.

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