Lizzie Siddal : The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel Paperback
by Lucinda Hawksley
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The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation.
Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young Pre-Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure of London's artistic world, until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 1862.
In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know her name always recognise her face: she is Millais's doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. With many parallels in the modern-day world of art and fashion, this biography takes Lizzie from the background of Dante Rossetti's life and, finally, brings her to the forefront of her own.
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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Carlton Books Ltd
- Publication Date:10/10/2013
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- ISBN:9780233004020
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Carlton Books Ltd
- Publication Date:10/10/2013
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- ISBN:9780233004020