Henrietta Garnett

Wives and Stunners (eBook, ePUB)

The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Muses

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Essentially a domestic biography whose main concern is the tragicomedy of manners enacted by a closely knit group of friends and lovers, Wives and Stunners tells the story of Janey Morris, Georgie Burne-Jones, Lizzie Siddall, Effie Gray and less well-known, Marie Spartali, Aglaia Coronio and Mary Zambacco. These women were the wives, mistresses andmuses, of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the inspiration behind the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and John Millais. Set against the background of mid-Victorian bohemian England, Henrietta Garnett vividly evokes the world they inhabited and the lives they lived.

She recounts the romances and friendships between the artists and the 'stunners' in a lively and original way and her book will appeal to anyone interested in Victorian England, the history of the Pre-Raphaelites and, significantly, to everyone who wants to read a spellbinding story of a bygone era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230767546
• Artikelnr.: 39865245

Autorenporträt

Henrietta Garnett is the author of several memoirs, and of an acclaimed novel, Family Skeletons. She is
the daughter of Angelica Garnett, granddaughter of the artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and daughter-in-law of the diarist Frances Partridge. Her biography of her ancester Anny Thackeray, daughter of the novelist, aunt of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, was published to great critical acclaim in 2004. She lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i: Introduction Chapter
1: The Formation of the P. R. B. Chapter
2: Effie and the Ruskins Chapter
3: Married Life Chapter
4: The Ruskins and the Pre
Raphaelites Chapter
5: En Plein Air Chapter
6: Lizzie Becomes Ophelia Chapter
7: Venice Regained Chapter
8: The Horror of Herne Hill Chapter
9: At Glenfinlas Chapter
10: Consequences Chapter
11: The Great Escape Chapter
12: The Dissolution of the P. R. B. Chapter
13: Lizzie and Gabriel Chapter
14: The Second Generation: The Revival of the P. R. B. and the Decline of Lizzie Siddal Chapter
15: Weddings in the Wind Chapter
16: Red House Chapter
17: Lizzie¿s Tragedy Chapter
18: Italian Interlude Chapter
19: Tudor House Chapter
20: Mr and Mrs Burne
Jones Chapter
21: A Greek Tragedy Chapter
22: Aftermath Chapter
23: Janey Chapter
24: Bad Ems Chapter
25: Cracking Up Chapter
26: Kelmscott Chapter
27: Nemesis Chapter
28: The End of the Firm Chapter
29: The Last Janey Picture Chapter
30: Morris at Leek Chapter
31: The Last Picture Show Acknowledgements
ii: Acknowledgements Unit
iii: Select Bibliography Unit
iv: Notes Index
v: Index