Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain
Published on 28. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
468 pages
978-1-80079-564-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first edited collection of essays entirely devoted to the women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exhibition and conference of 2019-20, the individual essays present new research into the wide-ranging creativity of the Pre-Raphaelite women. Artistic subjects include Evelyn De Morgan's goldwork paintings and her experiments with automatic writing. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Mary Seton Watts and Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale are also examined. Elizabeth Siddal's relationship with her sister-in-law Christina Rossetti is explored, as is her appropriation of the Pre-Raphaelite principle of «truth to nature». Women's writing is addressed, extracting Georgiana Burne-Jones from the memoir of her husband and reassessing the book of fairy tales she planned with Siddal. Fashion history informs an analysis of the sartorial practices of Jane Morris and Siddal, while the influence exerted by the Siddal-Rossetti relationship on a prominent Czech artist demonstrates how women initiated the spread of Pre-Raphaelite ideals in Europe. More personalised accounts of engaging with and recovering women in history include the painstaking genealogical research undertaken by the great-grandson of model Fanny Eaton and the curation of a Siddal exhibition at Wightwick Manor. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Pre-Raphaelites.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
101 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
711 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80079-564-8 (9781800795648)
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Glenda Youde | Robert Wilkes
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain
E-Book
10/2022
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€77.49
Available for download
Glenda Youde | Robert Wilkes
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain
E-Book
10/2022
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€77.49
Available for download
Persons
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.
Content
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: Alzbeta 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 Ophelia and Wightwick Manor: Collecting and Exhibiting Women Artists' Work at the National Trust.