![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Ophelias Muse: Q&A with Rita Cameron As many of you will know there is a new book out to add to the growing shelf of Pre-Raphaelite Fiction. The passionate visions Rossetti creates on canvas are echoed in their in She lives in San Jose, California, with her husband and two children. ![]() ![]() Lizzie begins to sit for some of the most celebrated members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, posing for John Everett Millais as Shakespeare's Ophelia, for William Holman Hunt-and especially for Rossetti, who immortalizes her in countless paintings as his namesake's beloved Beatrice. and JD from the University of Pennsylvania. Enchanted both by her ethereal appearance and her artistic ambitions-quite out of place for a shop girl-Rossetti draws her into his glittering world of salons and bohemian soirees. Working in a London milliner's shop, Lizzie stitches elegant bonnets destined for wealthier young women, until a chance meeting brings her to the attention of painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Without you there is no art in me." With her pale, luminous skin and cloud of copper-colored hair, nineteen-year-old Lizzie Siddal looks nothing like the rosy-cheeked ideal of Victorian beauty. ![]() "I'll never want to draw anyone else but you. ![]()
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