This is the first edited collection of essays entirely devoted to the women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Pre-Raphaelite women discussed include artists, models, writers, poets and designers, including Evelyn De Morgan, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Georgiana Burne-Jones and Fanny Eaton. An essential resource on the Pre-Raphaelites.
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.
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 Wattss 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-Joness 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 Siddals Creative Agency Robyne Calvert:
Dismantling Pre-Raphaelite Dress: Facts and Fictions in Womens Artistic
Sartorial Practices Helena Cox: Albta 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.
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.
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