Pre-Raphaelite Sisters

This is the first edited collection of essays entirely devoted to the women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Pre-Raphaelite women discussed include artists, models, writers, poets and designers, including Evelyn De Morgan, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Georgiana Burne-Jones and Fanny Eaton. An essential resource on the Pre-Raphaelites.

Autorentext

Glenda Youde has recently completed her doctorate at the University of York researching the neglected artistic legacy of Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (née Siddall). Robert Wilkes is a postdoctoral fellow in art history at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Together they organised the successful conference Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Making Art at the University of York in December 2019.

Inhalt

Contents: Making Art - Sarah Hardy: Evelyn De Morgan: Visions in Gold - Christin Neubauer: New Woman in Disguise: The Art of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale and the Woman Question at the Fin de Siecle - Caroline E. Giddis: New Light Upon the Soul: Mary Seton Watts's Legacy of Progressivism and Late-Pre-Raphaelitism in the Watts Cemetery Chapel - Margaretta S. Frederick: Politics and Paint: The Life Work of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon - Poetry and Writing - Rosalind White: 'Words Came Slowly One by One from Frozen Lips Shut Still and Dumb': A Reappraisal of the Poetry of Elizabeth Siddal - Nat Reeve: Queer Tombs and Reframing Doom: Elizabeth Siddal and Georgiana Burne-Jones's Unfinished Collaborative Project - Glenda Youde: Christina and Elizabeth Rossetti: Poetic and Artistic Rivals - Carey Gibbons: 'The Result of an Experiment': Evelyn De Morgan and Automatic Writing - Female Agency - Laure Nermel: 'Direct and Serious and Heartfelt': Truth-to-nature in Elizabeth Siddal's Creative Agency - Robyne Calvert: Dismantling Pre-Raphaelite Dress: Facts and Fictions in Women's Artistic Sartorial Practices - Helena Cox: Alb ta Siddallova and the Czech Rossetti - Charlotte Gere: Georgiana, Lady Burne-Jones: A Self-Portrait in the 'Memorials' of Her Husband - Personal Perspectives - Brian Eaton: Fanny Eaton: An Attempt to Discover the Woman behind the Images - Hannah Squire: Beyond Opheliaand Wightwick Manor: Collecting and Exhibiting Women Artists' Work at the National Trust.