This biography of the Pre-Raphaelite artists' muse takes Lizzie from the background of Dante Rossetti's life and, finally, brings her to the forefront of her own.
Before the modern supermodel, there was Lizzie Siddal, whose image captivated a generation-and whose life ended in a laudanum-soaked suicide. Saved from a working-class existence by Dante Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelite artist who was her lover, Siddal became recognizable throughout Victorian Britain as Millais's doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. Lucinda Hawksley looks behind the celebrated muse to reveal a talented woman in her own right.
