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S'està carregant… The Wayward Musede Elizabeth Hickey
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I'm fascinated by the Victorian painters who were a part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Their art is exquisite! Thus, I was anxious to read this book regarding Jane Burden-Morris who was the model for many of the most stunning paintings that came from this movement. When attending a theater production, Jane's life changed dramatically the day she met Dante Gabriel Rossetti. At the ripe age of 17, Dante plucked her like a pomegranate and took her from poverty to the rich, exciting world of the whirlwind, uncommon and unconventional life of this group of artists who had a mission to set convention upside down. Dante seduced young Jane while he was still in a complicated relationship with his previous muse Lizzie Siddal. Breaking Jane's heart, he returned to Lizzie. In a complicated web of intrigue, Jane developed a relationship with Dante's rich and talented friend William Morris, a co-member of the Pre-Raphaelites who was also was smitten by Jane. Marrying Morris paved the way for a fuller and more stable life, but the cad Rossetti simply could not let her go. While Hickey's writing is bland and not as powerful as I think it could be, I recommend this book to anyone interested in the paintings of Rossetti and the background of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and their incredible art! Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"I apologize again for my boldness, but I must tell you that you're the most beautiful girl in Oxford. Maybe in all of England. I have to put you in my painting." With these words, the scandalous, wildly talented painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti changes seventeen-year-old Jane Burden's life forever. Jane's gaunt, awkward figure and grave expression have cemented her reputation as the ugliest girl in Oxford. Raised by a stableman on Holywell Street -- the town's most sordid and despicable slum -- Jane is nearly resigned to marry in-kind. But when she meets Rossetti at the theater, he sees beyond her worn, ill-fitting dress and unruly hair and is stirred by her unconventional beauty. The charismatic painter whisks Jane into Oxford's exclusive art scene as his muse, and during the long and intimate hours of modeling -- draping and tilting, gazing and posing -- Jane finds herself falling in love. When Rossetti abruptly leaves Oxford with no plans to return, brokenhearted Jane settles for a stable, if passionless, marriage to his soft-spoken protégé, William Morris -- the man who would go on to become the father of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Jane resigns herself to life as a respectable wife and mother, exchanging the slop bucket for intricate needlepoint, willing away the memories of Rossetti and what could have been. But Rossetti and Jane are inextricably bound together by tragedy, art, and desire, and no amount of time or distance can separate them. Ultimately this complicated arrangement with which Jane, Morris, and Rossetti must learn to live threatens to undo them all. Richly textured and deftly portrayed, Elizabeth Hickey's latest is a compelling portrait of the ever-changing notions of both love and beauty. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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I read Painted Kiss last year, and thought Wayward Muse better. The author seems to have really found her groove with this one!
Not the author's fault at all, but the publisher should have put a Rossetti painting on the cover.