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.
- ISBN10 0233005072
- ISBN13 9780233005072
- Publish Date 12 January 2017 (first published 6 June 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 September 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Imprint Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English