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Christina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edward Burne-Jones
Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall
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Female Pre-Raphaelites
Jan Marsh
John Everett Millais
John Roddam Spencer
John Ruskin
Lizzie Siddal
Lizzie Siddall
Ophelia
Pre-Raphaelite artists
Pre-Raphaelite models
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Pre-Raphaelitism
Stanhope
Wightwick Manor
William Holman Hunt
William Michael Rossetti
Women artists
Product details
- ISBN 9781916846777
- Weight: 1000g
- Dimensions: 196 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 18 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Better known as ‘Lizzie Siddal’, the model who posed for John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia, Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti is now finally recognised as a Pre-Raphaelite artist in her own right, working alongside her male colleagues on equal terms.
Elizabeth’s designs were truly original, the creation of her own imagination. They embodied the essence of Pre-Raphaelitism that her husband Gabriel and other members of the circle were striving to achieve. The male members of the group shamelessly copied the ideas from Elizabeth’s small sketches to create their own large masterpieces which have since become the epitome of Pre-Raphaelite art.
The exclusion of women from the narrative has had a major impact in creating the perception of the Pre-Raphaelites as a predominantly male artistic movement; in Beyond Ophelia Dr Glenda Youde shows Elizabeth not as a pathetic drowning figure, but as the initiator of a directional change in the visual development of Pre-Raphaelite art. Featuring a unique collection of photographs of Elizabeth’s work commissioned by her husband after her death, this book highlights the critical importance of her role within the Pre-Raphaelite circle, and one which ultimately led to the evolution of the Aesthetic Movement.
Dr Glenda Youde discovered her passion for art while studying with the Open University. She is now an art historian, author and researcher affiliated to the University of York, where she received her doctorate in 2022. Her current research focuses on the neglected females within the Pre-Raphaelite circle, particularly the work of Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti. Born and raised in the Sussex Weald, Glenda now lives in Derbyshire.
