Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel - Softcover

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0233004025 ISBN 13: 9780233004020

Publisher: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Lizzie Siddal

About this title

Review:

'The life behind the model for Millais's Ophelia.... The first supermodel, Siddal remains a fascinating figure.' (Tatler) --Tatler

This mesmerising biography gives life to an icon, and reads as grippingly as any rags-to-riches novel.' --The Mail on Sunday

It is the stuff of opera --Sunday Telegraph

About the Author:

Lucinda Hawksley is the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She has written more than 20 books, including Lizzie Siddal, The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel (2004) and Katey, The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter (2006). A part-time lecturer as well as a writer, Lucinda is an expert in Dickens's family life and has been awarded a fellowship to study the life of Augustus Dickens (Charles's brother and the original "Boz") at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Andre Deutsch Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0233004025
• ISBN 13: 9780233004020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256