The women of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
How the Rossettis and their circle turned the gendered conflicts of Victorian society into art.
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How the Rossettis and their circle turned the gendered conflicts of Victorian society into art.
‘A queer fellow’ is how John Everett Millais described Dante Gabriel Rossetti after his death, ‘so dogmatic and so irritable when opposed.’ What’s queer in England is quite normal in Italy, where heated arguments are described as ‘discussioni’, but history has tended to forget that Rossetti was Italian. His fellow Pre-Raphaelites, however, were very conscious
FROM the surreal characters of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the heroes of Narnia to the Sheldonian Theatre’s Emperors’ Heads, artist…
The entwined lives and relationships of William and Jane Morris.
William Morris was the son of a stock-broker and Jane Burden was the daughter of a stablehand. He was raised in a mansion in Walthamstow (now the William Morris Gallery) and she grew up in a hovel in Oxford. Had she not been talent-spotted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti when she was leaving the theatre one