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Favorite ladies from history  ⇨  Elizabeth Siddal

Claim to fame: Pre-Raphaelite supermodel and wife of Rossetti

Why she’s on the list: While I’d always known of Lizzie, I didn’t really bother reading up on her until my freshman year of college. I was taking an art history course when I stumbled across Lizzie’s self-portrait in one of my textbooks, and I just remember being completely struck by it. I was so used to seeing her as this idealized image of feminine beauty, the very model of Ophelia and Beatrice, and the contrast between the way Millais and Rossetti viewed her and the way she viewed herself began to haunt me. I decided to read everything about her that I could get my hands on, but I soon found that the more I read, the more I liked her. I think she was a truly extraordinary woman who had a lot of talent and potential in her own right, and it kills me that her depression prevented her from seeing how special she really was.

Appearance:  Long neck, blue-green eyes, coppery golden hair

Personality traits: Sweet and gentle, as well as a great admirer of art and poetry

Required reading: Pre-Raphaelites in Love by Gay Daly

Notable quotable:  ”All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; and thou art like the poisonous tree that stole my life away.”

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