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.
| ISBN: | 9780233005072 |
| Publication date: | 12th January 2017 |
| Author: | Lucinda Hawksley |
| Publisher: | Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: arts and entertainment Social and cultural history |