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The Rossettis exhibition at The Tate, 2023. From left to right, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal The Lady of Shallott, Dante Gabriel Rossetti La Ghirlandata, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Veronica Veronese, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Bocca Baciata.
#the rossettis#art#dante gabriel rossetti#elizabeth eleanor siddal#rossettis#pre raphaelite#pre raphaelites#would recommend!!!
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It seems hard to me when I look at her sometimes, and think how many without one tithe of her genius or greatness of spirit have granted them abundant health and opportunity to labour through the little they can do or will do, while perhaps her soul is never to bloom nor her bright hair to fade, but after hardly escaping from degradation and corruption, all she might have been must sink out again unprofitably in that dark house where she was born. How truly she may say, 'No man may care for my soul.' I do not mean to make myself an exception, for how long I have known her, and not thought of this till so late—perhaps too late. But it is no use writing more about this subject; and I fear, too, my writing at all about it must prevent your easily believing it to be, as it is, by far the nearest thing to my own heart.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti writing of Lizzie Siddal's health in a letter dated 23 July, 1854
#european date orientation even tho it feels unnatural to my american brain#quotes#pre raphaelite#dante gabriel rossetti#rossetti#lizzie siddal#elizabeth siddal#elizabeth eleanor siddall#he really did admire her. not just the vague and vain concept of 'love' but he truly respected and appreciated her.#as much as a young victorian man could anyway......#this book by jan marsh is so insightful. it's truly flipping a lot of my expectations and previous assumptions#i didn't realize how deeply he cared for her in all the years they were just courting. ppl made it sound like he encouraged her only a bit#in her artistic pursuits but he gave her all the credit and praise for everything.#lizzie could make one stroke on a canvas and he'd start crying#i think ppl confuse his later lurid affairs as a widower w him being a playboy in his 20s. which doesn't appear to be the case.#i remember reading somewhere years ago that there was no evidence he committed adultery in their (albeit short) marriage but ppl assume#based on what they know about him. but he and lizzie were still very young when she died and he was much more bright-eyed and bushytailed#it seems in her very early adulthood.#didn't yeats also lose his virginity when he was like 40??? and he of course got around w a lot of women once he did.#ppl always make assumptions of what historical figures must've been like based on their modern assumptions of how ppl behave#jan marsh is smashing my entire schema of dgr as a young man and im kinda here for it#the girlies are gagging for guggums
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Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862), better known as Elizabeth Siddal,was an English artist, poet, and artists' model. Significant collections of her artworks can be found at Wightwick Manor and the Ashmolean. Siddal was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais (including his notable 1852 painting Ophelia), and especially by her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
#Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall#vintage#vintage photography#ceeceerae#colorized#vintage fashion#lizzie siddal
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verses that colored my january days
"Poems are not written...", Andrey Voznesensky
"Two Phantoms", Vahan Teryan
"To Live...", Paruyr Sevak
"I love to love...", Paruyr Sevak
"Piano Lesson", Richard Siken
"Prayer", Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Andrey Kneller)
"Two Morning Poems", Yevgeny Yevtushenko (translated by Anselm Hollo)
"Pomegranate", Sol Rios
"Cascando", Samuel Beckett
"Kissing in Vietnamese", Ocean Vuong
"To Say Dark Things ", Ingeborg Bachmann
"Ballad About A Smoke-Filled Wagon" (Don’t separate from your dear ones…), Alexander Kochetkov
"The Roses of Saadi" Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (Marie Felicite Josephe Desbordes)
"There Is a Gold Light in Certain Old Paintings", Donald Justice
"Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?", Mary Oliver
"Love and Hate", Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
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"La Belle Dame sans Merci", John Keats
"My Ladys soul", Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall
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Bonus Episode - Trillian Stars and Kyle Cassidy
Photographer and writer Kyle Cassidy and actor and model Trillian Stars join us for a Bonus Episode to talk about their new Kickstarter, THIS IS ONLY EARTH, MY DEAR – POEMS & PHOTOS (closing May 4, 2024)! We get into their inspiration to make a book combining the poems of Pre-Raphaelite muse/model/artist Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal with photos of Trillian (in a Pre-Raphaelite mode), how the project changed once they began shooting in East London, how they found enough costumes for all the photos they wanted to take, why Lizzie Siddal was dismissed by the peers of her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and how modeling and acting overlap and differ (and why Kyle prefers shooting with actors). We also get into what they've learned from nearly a dozen Kickstarters, what stretch goals they're hoping to reach for this one, and why they want to give Lizzie Siddal the book she never got when she was alive. GO PLEDGE, and follow Kyle on LiveJournal (!?) and Instagram, and follow Trillian on Instagram • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our e-newsletter
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Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal Rossetti (1829–1862), Clerk Saunders
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At Last
by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
O mother, open the window wide
And let the daylight in;
The hills grow darker to my sight
And thoughts begin to swim.
And mother dear, take my young son,
(Since I was born of thee)
And care for all his little ways
And nurse him on thy knee.
And mother, wash my pale pale hands
And then bind up my feet;
My body may no longer rest
Out of its winding sheet.
And mother dear, take a sapling twig
And green grass newly mown,
And lay them on my empty bed
That my sorrow be not known.
And mother, find three berries red
And pluck them from the stalk,
And burn them at the first cockcrow
That my spirit may not walk.
And mother dear, break a willow wand,
And if the sap be even,
Then save it for sweet Robert’s sake
And he’ll know my soul’s in heaven.
And mother, when the big tears fall,
(And fall, God knows, they may)
Tell him I died of my great love
And my dying heart was gay.
And mother dear, when the sun has set
And the pale kirk grass waves,
Then carry me through the dim twilight
And hide me among the graves.
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Da lontano attraverso terre e mari
il mio non chiesto amore è tornato da me:
non ricordo le sue parole
ma solo il lamento degli alberi sopra di me.
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, Da lontano
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Sir Patrick Spens (1856)
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-1862)
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The Haunted Wood, 1856
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829–1862)
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The Haunted Wood
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829–1862)
National Trust, Wightwick Manor
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Six months of reading (arranged in order of date completed):
January:
01-05 Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
01-09 Layne Redmond, When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
01-17 Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
01-21 Mickey Hart with Jay Stevens, Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion
01-24 Ian Rankin, A Song for the Dark Times
01-27 Aravind Adiga, Amnesty
February:
02-01 Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (2nd Ed)
02-06 John le Carré [David John Moore Cornwell], The Little Drummer Girl
02-08 Mickey Hart and Fredric Lieberman, Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm
02-10 Michael Connelly, The Law of Innocence
02-16 Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
02-20 Heather McHugh, Muddy Matterhorn
02-22 John Connolly, Every Dead Thing
02-24 Algernon Charles Swinburne, Love's Cross-Currents: A Year's Letters
02-25 Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
March:
03-01 Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets
03-04 Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
03-12 Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
03-19 Sasha Geffen, Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary
03-22 John Connolly, The Dirty South
03-25 Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed
03-29 Remy Boydell [art] and Michelle Perez [words], The Pervert
03-30 Willa Cather, My Ántonia
April:
04-03 Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland
04-06 S. A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland
04-08 Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
04-16 Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
04-24 Willa Cather, One of Ours
04-26 Paisley Rekdal, Appropriate: A Provocation
May:
05-05 Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: A Novel
05-08 Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
05-12 Stephen King, The Institute
05-18 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
05-22 Elizabeth Siddall, My Ladys Soul: The Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall
June:
06-08 Ann Patchett, Taft
06-11 Jessica Barry [Melissa Pimentel], Don't Turn Around
06-14 Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel
06-21 Carole Johnstone, Mirrorland
06-24 Heath Fogg Davis, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
06-28 Karen Kondazian, The Whip
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Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Eleanor Siddal
The Haunted Wood
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It is not now a longing year
That parts us, not a day,
Yet the green leaves touch me on the cheek
Dear Christ this month of May,
Yet who can take their first dear love
and kiss him the old way?
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, from My Ladys Soul edited by Serena Trowbridge
#happy (or sad) may!#elizabeth siddall#elizabeth siddal#pre raphaelite#poetry#it is not now a longing year#(also if you've seen a different version it's because there are in fact a few manuscript variations and WM Rossetti chose a different one)#(plus he edited it a bunch)#mine
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Adele albums reimagined as Penguin Classics. Featuring Pre-Raphaelite paintings with Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall as the model.
Follow me on Instagram @albumplusart!
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