# Lizzie Siddal

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- Authors: [Lucinda Hawksley](https://www.bookquiver.com/lucinda-hawksley)
- Publisher: Headline Welbeck Non Fiction
- ISBN: 978-18-0279-792-3
- Published: 2023-08-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation. Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young Pre-Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure of London's artistic world, until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 1862. In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know her name always recognise her face: she is Millais's doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. With many parallels in the modern-day world of art and fashion, this biography takes Lizzie from the background of Dante Rossetti's life and, finally, brings her to the forefront of her own.