Lizzie Siddal

The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel

Lucinda Hawksley

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English

Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
04 August 2023

Art & design styles: Pre-Raphaelite art; Biography: arts & entertainment; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Social & cultural history

The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation.

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's 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.

By: Lucinda Hawksley
Imprint: Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9781802797923
ISBN 10: 1802797920
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 04 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Lucinda Dickens Hawksley is the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She has written more than 20 books, including Lizzie Siddal, The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel (2004) and Katey, The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter (2006). A part-time lecturer as well as a writer, Lucinda is an expert in Dickens's family life and has been awarded a fellowship to study the life of Augustus Dickens (Charles's brother and the original ""Boz"") at the Newberry Library in Chicago."

Reviews for Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel

'A truly extraordinary achievement' -- A.N. Wilson 'The life behind the model for Millais's Ophelia ... The first supermodel, Siddal remains a fascinating figure' * Tatler * 'A seductive biography. The story as it gains in tragedy is irresistible' * Sunday Times * 'This mesmerising biography gives life to an icon, and reads as grippingly as any rags-to-riches novel' * Mail on Sunday * 'It is the stuff of opera' * Sunday Telegraph * 'A heart-wrenching tale of art, addiction, adultery and loss, which transcends the decades. A fluid contemporary classic' * Skytext *