Pre-Raphaelite Sisters

Glenda Youde has recently completed her doctorate at the University of York researching the neglected artistic legacy of Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (née Siddall). Robert Wilkes is a postdoctoral fellow in art history at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Together they organised the successful conference Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Making Art at the University of York in December 2019.

Contents: Making Art – Sarah Hardy: Evelyn De Morgan: Visions in Gold – Christin Neubauer: New Woman in Disguise: The Art of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale and the Woman Question at the Fin de Siecle – Caroline E. Giddis: New Light Upon the Soul: Mary Seton Watts’s Legacy of Progressivism and Late-Pre-Raphaelitism in the Watts Cemetery Chapel – Margaretta S. Frederick: Politics and Paint: The Life Work of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon – Poetry and Writing – Rosalind White: «Words Came Slowly One by One from Frozen Lips Shut Still and Dumb»: A Reappraisal of the Poetry of Elizabeth Siddal – Nat Reeve: Queer Tombs and Reframing Doom: Elizabeth Siddal and Georgiana Burne-Jones’s Unfinished Collaborative Project – Glenda Youde: Christina and Elizabeth Rossetti: Poetic and Artistic Rivals – Carey Gibbons: «The Result of an Experiment»: Evelyn De Morgan and Automatic Writing – Female Agency – Laure Nermel: «Direct and Serious and Heartfelt»: Truth-to-nature in Elizabeth Siddal’s Creative Agency – Robyne Calvert: Dismantling Pre-Raphaelite Dress: Facts and Fictions in Women’s Artistic Sartorial Practices – Helena Cox: Alžbĕta Siddallova and the Czech Rossetti – Charlotte Gere: Georgiana, Lady Burne-Jones: A Self-Portrait in the «Memorials» of Her Husband – Personal Perspectives – Brian Eaton: Fanny Eaton: An Attempt to Discover the Woman behind the Images – Hannah Squire: Beyond Ophelia and Wightwick Manor: Collecting and Exhibiting Women Artists’ Work at the National Trust.