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  • About Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
  • T Shirts
  • What is Pre-Raphaelite Art?
  • Unexpected Pre-Raphaelite Sightings
  • Contact
  • 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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  • Alexa Wilding,  Annie Miller,  Christina Rossetti,  Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  Fanny Cornforth,  Jane Burden Morris,  Paintings

    Rossetti’s Models

    February 4, 2016

    Like his Pre-Raphaelite brethren, Dante Gabriel Rossetti used live models in his works.  Throughout the course of his career, the same faces grace his canvasses, ranging from family members to lovers.  Occasionally, models Elizabeth Siddal and Alexa Wilding are confused for each other. Other models may be misidentified completely. so this post is intended to be a brief overview of…

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  • Books,  Christina Rossetti,  Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  ghosts,  myth

    Hide Me Among the Graves

    October 8, 2015

    Tim Powers doesn’t write about your run-of-the-mill vampires.  His undead may feed upon you, but in return they will inspire words and poetry that you could never have written before.  I found Powers’ mythology to be a refreshing twist.  In Hide Me Among the Graves, the artistic Rossetti family deals with the vampiric curse of their late uncle, John Polidori.…

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  • Christina Rossetti,  poetry

    Love is a place

    May 26, 2015

    One of the benefits of an active reading life is that when you read not only for pleasure but for improvement, then similar themes in different authors’ works seem to just float to you. Unbidden. Like synergy. Today I read e.e.  cummings’ Love is a Place: love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of…

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  • Burne-Jones,  Christina Rossetti,  Dante Gabriel Rossetti,  Evelyn De Morgan,  myth,  Watts

    I stretch my hands and catch at Hope

    December 17, 2014

    According to myth, after Prometheus stole fire from the gods, Zeus wanted to punish mankind. He ordered Hephaistos and other gods to create a woman that they would endow with gifts and beauty. Hephaistos created her lovely form; the Four Winds breathed life into her. Her beauty was given to her by Aphrodite. Zeus bestowed upon her the gift of…

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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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