Wives and Stunners
The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Muses
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Product details:
- Edition number Main Market Ed., Unabridged
- Publisher Macmillan
- Date of Publication 30 August 2012
- ISBN 9780230709409
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 241x158x30 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A vivid, richly observed and compellingly readable account of the women who held the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in thrall.
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Essentially a domestic biography whose main concern is the tragicomedy of manners enacted by a closely knit group of friends and lovers, Wives and Stunners tells the story of Janey Morris, Georgie Burne-Jones, Lizzie Siddall, Effie Gray and less well-known, Marie Spartali, Aglaia Coronio and Mary Zambacco. These women were the wives, mistresses andmuses, of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the inspiration behind the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and John Millais. Set against the background of mid-Victorian bohemian England, Henrietta Garnett vividly evokes the world they inhabited and the lives they lived.
She recounts the romances and friendships between the artists and the 'stunners' in a lively and original way and her book will appeal to anyone interested in Victorian England, the history of the Pre-Raphaelites and, significantly, to everyone who wants to read a spellbinding story of a bygone era.
Table of Contents:
Introduction - i: Introduction Chapter - 1: The Formation of the P. R. B. Chapter - 2: Effie and the Ruskins Chapter - 3: Married Life Chapter - 4: The Ruskins and the Pre-Raphaelites Chapter - 5: En Plein Air Chapter - 6: Lizzie Becomes Ophelia Chapter - 7: Venice Regained Chapter - 8: The Horror of Herne Hill Chapter - 9: At Glenfinlas Chapter - 10: Consequences Chapter - 11: The Great Escape Chapter - 12: The Dissolution of the P. R. B. Chapter - 13: Lizzie and Gabriel Chapter - 14: The Second Generation: The Revival of the P. R. B. and the Decline of Lizzie Siddal Chapter - 15: Weddings in the Wind Chapter - 16: Red House Chapter - 17: Lizzie?s Tragedy Chapter - 18: Italian Interlude Chapter - 19: Tudor House Chapter - 20: Mr and Mrs Burne-Jones Chapter - 21: A Greek Tragedy Chapter - 22: Aftermath Chapter - 23: Janey Chapter - 24: Bad Ems Chapter - 25: Cracking Up Chapter - 26: Kelmscott Chapter - 27: Nemesis Chapter - 28: The End of the Firm Chapter - 29: The Last Janey Picture Chapter - 30: Morris at Leek Chapter - 31: The Last Picture Show Acknowledgements - ii: Acknowledgements Unit - iii: Select Bibliography Unit - iv: Notes Index - v: Index
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