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The Unquiet Afterlife of Elizabeth Siddal

11/2/2019

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Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais, Tate Museum, 1851-1852
Following a tumultuous life entrenched in Britain's art world, Elizabeth Siddal was laid to rest in 1862, but only a few years later her coffin was reopened. Find out the story of her life, marriage to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, death, and afterlife in this episode.

Podcaster: Christine
Further Reading

Laura Bradley, "Elizabeth Siddal: Drawn into the Pre-Raphaelite Circle", Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 18:2. (1992), pp. 136-145, 187.

J.B. Bullen, “Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)”,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, (2004/2015).


Marion R. Edwards, "Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal -- The Age Problem", The Burlington Magazine, 119:887, (February 1977), pp. 110, 112.

Paul Fyfe, "Accidental Death: Lizzie Siddal and the Poetics of the Coroner's Inquest", Victorian Review, 40:2, (Fall 2014), pp. 17-22.

Jan Marsh, "Did Rossetti Really Need to Exhume his Wife?" The Times Literary Supplement, (15 February 2012).

--, "Imagining Elizabeth Siddal", New Statesman & Society, 1:15, (16 September 1988), pp. 32-36.
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--, The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal, Quartet Books, 1989.

William Rossetti, "Dante Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal", The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, 1:3, (May 1903), pp. 273-295.

Carol Rumens, "Poem of the Week: Dead Love by Elizabeth Siddal", The Guardian, (14 September 2015).

Virginia Surtees, “Siddal, Elizabeth Eleanor (1829-1862)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, (2004).

The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Archive, Jerome McGann, ed.

"Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti", The Pall Mall Gazette, (21 April 1870) via British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900."

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

"Rossettis Poems", The Graphic, (14 May 1870) via British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900.


Images

A Christmas Carol, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Harvard Art Museums, 1857-1858.

Beata Beatrix, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Tate Museum, c. 1864-1870.

Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast, Denies Him Her Hand, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1852.

D.G. Rossetti Sitting to Elizabeth Siddal, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti Archive, 1853.

Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight's Spear, by Elizabeth Siddal, Tate Museum, c. 1856.
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Ophelia, by Sir John Everett Millais, Tate Museum, 1851-1852.

Pippa Passes, or Pippa Passing the Loose Women, by Elizabeth Siddal, Rossetti Archive, 1854.
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Sir Patrick Spens, by Elizabeth Siddal, Tate Museum, 1856.


Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
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Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Wessing Feast, Denies Him Her Hand, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1852.
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Pippa Passes, or Pippa Passing the Loose Women, by Elizabeth Siddal, Rossetti Archive, 1854.
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Sir Patrick Spens, by Elizabeth Siddal, Tate Museum, 1856.
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Beata Beatrix, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Tate Museum, c. 1864-1870.
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D.G. Rossetti Sitting to Elizabeth Siddal, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti Archive, 1853.
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Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight's Spear, by Elizabeth Siddal, Tate Museum, c. 1856.
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A Christmas Carol, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Harvard Art Museums, 1857-1858.
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