"Jan Marsh's book is the best researched and fullest biography of Rossetti we have yet had". (Fiona MacCarthy, "New York Review of Books"). "Although never formally part of the Pre-Raphaelite poetic school, which included her brother Gabriel, William Morris, and Algernon Swinburne, Christina Rossett[...]
In The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal, first published fifteen years ago, Jan Marsh enlarged on the life of one of the subjects of her earlier work, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, and delineated the true story of Elizabeth Siddal as an artist in her own right separated from the ubiquitous historical images.[...]
Vid mitten av 1800-talet skapade en grupp unga konstnärer i England en ny bildvärld som med sina klara färger, sitt allvar och sin utmanande skönhet skakade om det samtida viktorianska konstlivet. De kallade sig prerafaeliter och namnet pekade ut deras inspirationskällor. I konsten före den it[...]