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Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites | 
 enlarge | Author: Lucinda Hawksley
Publisher: Walker & Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 464987
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 230
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN: 0802715508
Dewey Decimal Number: 704.942
EAN: 9780802715500
ASIN: 0802715508
Publication Date: August 30, 2006
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 A Reading Must! January 3, 2008
J. Proctor (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a seriously wonderful book.
Charting the short, tragic life of Lizzie Siddal from youth to death and all the bits in between, this book is an absolute joy to read.
Impeccably researched and wonderfully written, it had me crying buckets at the end, but also taught me things I didn't know about her life and death, her relationships and what must have been an emotionally devastating love affair and marriage with the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
If you are a student of Victoriana, have an interest in the Pre-Raphaelite world, or just enjoy an excellent biography, then this is most definitely the book for you. It's absolutely worth every penny I paid and I will be reading it again - just as soon as it's done the rounds of all my friends that want to read it!
 Disappointing June 17, 2007
Art lover (London)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The subject of the mysterious Elizabeth Siddal is always interesting but I found this book superficial and populist. The background information placing Siddal in her contemporary context (eg. the life of milliners in the 19th century) is perhaps the best thing about it. A lot of it seems to be based on supposition. For a far better, well-researched investigation of Siddal read Jan Marsh's biography 'The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal'.
Quite interesting... not great October 13, 2006
daisyrock (nottingham)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This falls somewhere between the specialist art history texts (which it certainly is not) and fictionalised, pop culture biography. By which I mean I think you need to have some interest in pre raphaelite art to find it at all worthwhile - it's not just about the melodrama of Miss Siddall's life. Personally, I think if you're going to do an unhistorical, 'myth of the artist' type narrative you might as well go the whole hog and 'novelise' it. This is half and half. Neither Dante nor Lizzie come out of it very well, which is probably fairly accurate. They were both rather damaged, badly behaved weirdos. But a fairly light, interesting read nonetheless.
Surprisingly Absorbing Biography February 17, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Having a great interest in the world of the Pre-Raphaelites already, I thought at best it would be an interesting read - but it is such a well researched and absorbing book I could not put it down. Lizzie is seen here as human, her life the tragedy of it, and the fact that Rossetti did not cause all of her problems. However I could not leave the book with a dislike of her sometimes manipulative nature. Such is the success of this book. You will not be disappointed if you read it.
 Thoughtful and interesting January 4, 2006
Eluned (Cardiff, Wales)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Lizzie Siddal was so prominent in the works of the Pre-Raphaelites that I thought it would be interesting to find out more about her, and to my knowledge, this is the only biography available.
Although clearly written with interesting and relevant detail, the weakness of this book is that the biographer sets out with the 'tragedy' already in mind. Lizzie's faults (and there were a few of them) are glossed over as a result of her difficult life and love. Her whole life is seen through the hindsight of her death. It gets to be a bit tedius after a while. I know that the end of every biography is the death of the main character, but it shouldn't be the beginning and middle as well.
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