Franny Moyle

Desperate Romantics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England; they outraged their contemporaries with their loves, jealousies and betrayals, and they stunned society when their complex moral choices led to madness and suicide, or when their permissive experiments ended in addiction and death. The characters are huge and vivid and remain as compelling today as they were in their own time.

The influential critic, writer and artist John Ruskin was their father figure and his apostles included the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the designer William Morris. They drew extraordinary women into their circle. In a move intended to raise eyebrows for its social audacity, they recruited the most ravishing models they could find from the gutters of Victorian slums.

The saga is brought to life through the vivid letters and diaries kept by the group and the accounts written by their contemporaries. These real-lie stories shed new light on the greatest nineteenth-century British art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848548572
• Artikelnr.: 39230464

Autorenporträt

Franny Moyle has a degree in English and History of Art from St John`s College, Cambridge. She has played a key role in the BBC`s arts programming, most recently as Commissioner of Arts and Culture across the BBC`s four main channels. A year ago she left to pursue her own projects and is now a freelance executive producer, handling some of their major cultural series. She is a director of the Hackney Empire, near her home in East London, and is married with three children.

Rezensionen

'A hectic tale, packed with sex and dark drama...not so much an extension but an explosion and an echo of today's celebrity culture' West End Extra, Gerald Isaaman