Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
by Jan Marsh
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Who were the women who sat for the Pre-Raphaelite painters? Muses to an exclusively male genius, of tragic stature and uncertain health - were they indeed as passive as their portrait paiinters and their critics contrived to suggest?Jan Marsh reveals the actual lives behind the myth of the Pre-Raphaelite women: Elizabeth Siddal, Emma Brown, Annie Miller, Fannie Cornforth, Jane Morris and Georgiana Burne-Jones. A meticulous testimony, this book at last records the rare vitality of these show more gifted and ambitious women. Delivering them from a century of masculine misrepresentation, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood is a fascinating tribute to their spirit of independence in circumstances which conspired to suppress it. It includes an intriguing set of photographs as well as reproductions of the paintings and studies they inspired. -- show less
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"It is anyway pointless to try to suppress myth on the grounds of factual error." Allows that myth serves a purpose of its own. A sort of Serenity Prayer for scholars of people like the Pre-Raphs and Byron. "[M]yths...say more about the society that recyels them than about the figures that inhabit them."
A feminist reading that manages not to be a diatribe. (Some recent writers about B's women could have benefited from a study of this.) Helps tremendously that Marsh is a Rossetti biographer, knows him well, and doesn't just see him simplistically through the limited lens of his muses.
A feminist reading that manages not to be a diatribe. (Some recent writers about B's women could have benefited from a study of this.) Helps tremendously that Marsh is a Rossetti biographer, knows him well, and doesn't just see him simplistically through the limited lens of his muses.
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Jan Marsh was Leverhulme Fellow at the National Portrait Gallery, researching the Black presence in Britain in the nineteenth century.
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- Lizzie Siddal; Jane Morris (Burden); Fanny Cornforth; Annie Miller; Georgiana Burne-Jones; Emma Brown
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