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' 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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'This mesmerising biography gives life to an icon, and reads as grippingly as any rags-to-riches novel' * Mail on Sunday. * 'The life behind the model for Millais's Ophelia ... The first supermodel, Siddal remains a fascinating figure' * Tatler. * 'A seductive biography. The story as it gains in tragedy is irresistible' * Sunday Times. * 'It is the stuff of opera' * Sunday Telegraph. *
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Headline Publishing Group
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-233-00507-2 (9780233005072)
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Lucinda Hawksley is the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She has written more than 20 books, including March, Women, March and Katey, The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter (2006). A part-time lecturer as well as a writer, Lucinda is an expert in Dickens's family life and has been awarded a fellowship to study the life of Augustus Dickens (Charles's brother and the original 'Boz') at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
