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
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and the
Ashmolean. Siddal was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...
, including
Walter Deverell
Walter Howell Deverell (1827–1854) was a United States-born British artist, closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Biography
Deverell was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, into an English family who moved back to Britain wh ...
,
William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. ...
,
John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, ( , ; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest ...
(including his notable 1852 painting ''
Ophelia''), and especially by her husband,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Early life
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, named after her mother, was born on 25 July 1829,
at the family's home at 7 Charles Street,
Hatton Garden. Her parents were Charles Crooke Siddall, and Elizabeth Eleanor Evans, from a family of English and Welsh descent. She had two older siblings, Ann and Charles Robert. At the time of her birth, her father had a cutlery-making business.
About 1831, the Siddalls moved to the less affluent borough of
Southwark
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, in south London. The rest of Siddal's siblings were born in Southwark; Lydia, to whom she was particularly close; Mary, Clara, James and Henry. Siddal "received an ordinary education, conformable to her condition in life" and first "read
Tennyson by finding one or two poems of his on a piece of paper" that had been wrapped around some butter. This engendered a love of poetry while young and inspired her to write her own.
Pre-Raphaelite Model
![John Everett Millais - Ophelia - Google Art Project](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/John_Everett_Millais_-_Ophelia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
In 1849, while working at a
millinery in Cranbourne Alley, London, Siddal made the acquaintance of
Walter Deverell
Walter Howell Deverell (1827–1854) was a United States-born British artist, closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Biography
Deverell was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, into an English family who moved back to Britain wh ...
. Accounts differ on the circumstances of their meeting: in one account,
William Allingham noticed her when he came to admire a co-worker, and then recommended her as a possible model to his friend Deverell, who was struggling with a large oil painting based on the
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
play ''
Twelfth Night
''Twelfth Night'', or ''What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Vio ...
''. Another account has Deverell accompanying his mother to the millinery where he noticed Siddal in the back of the shop.
[, as quoted in ] In either case, Deverell later described Siddal as "magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling ... she has grey eyes, and her hair is like dazzling copper, and shimmers with luster." Deverell subsequently employed Siddal as a model and introduced her to the Pre-Raphaelites.
As with the other Pre-Raphaelites, Deverell took his inspiration directly from life rather than from an idealized classical figure. In his ''Twelfth Night'' painting, he based Orsino on himself, Feste on his friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Viola/Cesario on Siddal. This was the first time Siddal sat as a model.
According to
William Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel's brother, "Deverell drew another Viola from her, in an etching for
''The Germ''."
Elaine Shefer asserts that Deverell portrayed Siddal in
''A Pet'' and
''The Grey Parrot''.
William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. ...
painted her in ''
A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids'' (1849–1850) and ''Two Gentlemen of Verona, Valentine Rescuing Sylvia From Proteus'' (1850 or 1851).
For Millais's
''Ophelia'', Siddal floated in a bathtub full of water to portray the drowning Ophelia. Millais painted daily through the winter, putting oil lamps under the tub to warm the water. On one occasion, the lamps went out and the water became icy cold. Millais, absorbed by his painting, did not notice and Siddal did not complain. After this, she became ill with a severe
cold or
pneumonia
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. Her father held Millais responsible and, under the threat of legal action, Millais paid her doctor's bills.
Relationship with Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti met Siddal in 1849, probably while they both modelled for Deverell. Rossetti gave Siddal the nickname "Lizzie" when she entered the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood circle, and "the diminutive enhanced her youthful, dependent role."
By 1851, she had become Rossetti's
muse
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, and he began to paint her to the exclusion of nearly all others. He also stopped Siddal from modelling for others.
![Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Elizabeth Siddal Seated at an Easel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Elizabeth_Siddal_Seated_at_an_Easel.jpg)
In 1852, she began to study with Rossetti. That same year, Siddal became lovers with Rossetti and moved into his Chatham Place residence. They subsequently became anti-social and absorbed in each other's affections. They coined affectionate nicknames for one another, such as "Guggums" or "Gug" and "Dove", the latter one of Rossetti's names for Siddal. He also shortened the spelling of her name to Siddal, dropping the second 'l'.
Perhaps Rossetti's most abundant and personal works were his idealized pencil sketches of Siddal at home, most of which he entitled simply "Elizabeth Siddal". In these sketches, he portrayed Siddal as a woman of leisure, class, and beauty, often situated in comfortable settings. She also became the subject of much of Rossetti's poetry. One poem, ''A Last Confession'', extolls his love for Siddal, whom he personifies as the heroine with eyes "as of the sea and sky on a grey day."
Beginning in 1853, Rossetti used Siddal as a model for a series of Dante-themed paintings, including ''The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice'' (1852), ''Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast, Denies him her Salutation'' (1851), ''Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah'' (1855), and, perhaps his most famous portrait of her, ''
Beata Beatrix'' (1864–1870), which he painted as a memorial after her death.
It has been estimated that there are thousands of Rossetti's drawings, paintings, and poems in which Sidall was a subject.
Work
![Siddal-self-portrait](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Siddal-self-portrait.jpg)
In 1854, Siddal painted a self-portrait that differed from the typical Pre-Raphaelite idealised beauty. In 1855, art critic
John Ruskin
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began to subsidise her career and paid £150 per year in exchange for all the drawings and paintings she produced. She produced many sketches, drawings, and watercolours as well as one oil painting. Her sketches are similar to other Pre-Raphaelite compositions illustrating Arthurian legend and other idealized
medieval
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themes, and she exhibited with the Pre-Raphaelites at the summer exhibition at Russell Place in 1857.
During Siddal’s career as an artist and poet from 1852 to 1861, she produced over 100 works. Siddal also wrote poetry during this period, often with dark themes about lost love or the impossibility of true love. "Her verses were as simple and moving as ancient ballads; her drawings were as genuine in their medieval spirit as much more highly finished and competent works of Pre-Raphaelite art," wrote critic
William Gaunt. Both Rossetti and
Ford Madox Brown supported and admired her work.
Relationship with Rossetti's family and marriage
![Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Regina Cordium (1860)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Regina_Cordium_%281860%29.jpg)
As Siddal came from a working-class family, Rossetti feared introducing her to his parents. Siddal was the victim of harsh criticism from his sisters. The knowledge that his family would not approve contributed to Rossetti delaying the marriage. Siddal appears to have believed, with some justification, that Rossetti was always seeking to replace her with a younger muse, which contributed to her later depressive periods and illness.
Shortly before their marriage, Rossetti produced a famous portrait of Siddal, ''Regina Cordium'' or ''The Queen of Hearts ''(1860). This painting is a close-up, vibrantly coloured depiction of Siddal.
Siddal and Rossetti married on Wednesday, 23 May 1860 at St. Clement's Church in the seaside town of
Hastings
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east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...
. There were no family or friends present, only a couple of witnesses whom they had asked in Hastings.
Ill health and death
It was thought that she suffered from
tuberculosis
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, but some historians believe an intestinal disorder was more likely.
Elbert Hubbard wrote that "She suffered much from
neuralgia, and the
laudanum
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Red ...
taken to relieve the pain had grown into a necessity." Others have suggested she might have been
anorexic while others attribute her poor health to a laudanum addiction or a combination of ailments.
Siddal travelled to Paris and
Nice
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for several years for her health. At the time of her wedding, she was so frail and ill that she had to be carried to the church, despite it being a five-minute walk from where she was staying. She became
severely depressed and her long illness gave her access to laudanum to which she became addicted. In 1861, Siddal became pregnant, which ended with the birth of a stillborn daughter. The stillbirth left Siddal with
post-partum depression
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. She became pregnant for a second time in late 1861.
Siddal overdosed on laudanum on 10 February 1862. She, Rossetti, and his friend
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as ''Poems and Ballads'', and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition ...
had dined together in a nearby hotel. After having taken Siddal home, Rossetti attended his weekly lecture at the
Working Men's College. Upon returning home from teaching, Rossetti found Siddal unconscious in bed and could not revive her. The first doctor Rossetti called claimed that he was unable to save her, upon which Rossetti sent for another three doctors. A stomach pump was used, but to no avail. She died at 7:20 am on 11 February 1862 at their home at 14 Chatham Place. The coroner ruled her death as accidental; however, there are suggestions that Rossetti found a suicide note, with the words "Please look after Harry" (her invalid brother, who may have had a slight intellectual disability), supposedly "pinned ... on the breast of her night-shirt."
Consumed with grief and guilt Rossetti allegedly went to see
Ford Madox Brown who is supposed to have instructed him to burn the note.
Since suicide was illegal and considered immoral, it would have brought scandal on the family and barred Siddal from a Christian burial.
After Siddal's death
![Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Beata Beatrix, 1864-1870](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Beata_Beatrix%2C_1864-1870.jpg)
Siddal was buried with her father-in-law
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on 17 February 1862 in the Rossetti family grave in the west side of
Highgate Cemetery
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. Later burials in the same grave are her mother-in-law
Frances Rossetti (1886),
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Brit ...
(1895), and
William Michael Rossetti (1919).
In August 1869, Rossetti authorized
Charles Howell to disinter her coffin to retrieve a handwritten book of Rossetti's poems, which he had laid beside her head before burial. With the aid of a Dr. Llewelyn Williams and two others, Howell accomplished this in October 1869. Dr. Williams subsequently disinfected the book. Rossetti then published the contents in ''Poems'' (1870).
These became part of Rossetti's sonnet sequence entitled ''The House of Life.'' This sequence contained the poem "Without Her", a reflection on life once love has departed.
Legacy
Their home at 14 Chatham Place was demolished and is now covered by
Blackfriars Station
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.
Exhibitions and collections
![Elizabeth Siddal - Lady Clare (watercolour)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Elizabeth_Siddal_-_Lady_Clare_%28watercolour%29.jpg)
The first solo exhibition of Siddal's work was curated by
Jan Marsh in 1991 at the
Ruskin Gallery
The Ruskin Gallery is a gallery within the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield, England.
It houses a collection of minerals, paintings, ornithological prints, drawings, manuscripts and architectural plaster casts assembled by John Ruskin.
It first ...
in
Sheffield
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.
Rosalie Glynn Grylls
(Mary) Rosalie Glynn Grylls (13 April 1905 – 2 November 1988), was a British biographer, lecturer and Liberal Party politician. In 1945 she became known as Lady Mander.
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and
Geoffrey Mander
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Ea ...
paid a record sum for her work in the 1960s and donated the art to the National Trust. A 2018 exhibition, "Beyond Ophelia", curated by National Trust Assistant Curator Hannah Squire, ran at
Wightwick Manor
The legacy of a family's passion for Victorian art and design, Wightwick Manor (pronounced "Wittick") is a Victorian manor house located on Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. Owned by the National Trust since 1937, the Manor ...
for nine months and featured twelve artworks by Siddal and owned by the National Trust. Only the second solo exhibition of her work, the exhibition examined Siddal's career, artistic style, subject matter, and the prejudice she faced as a female artist, whilst also exploring the Manders of Wightwick as pioneering collectors.
The oil painting ''Self Portrait'' (1853–54) and watercolour ''Lady Clare'' (1857) are currently in private collections.
''Lady Affixing a Pennant to a Knight’s Spear'' (1856) Sir Patrick Spens' (1856), and
'(1855) have all been exhibited in the
Tate Gallery
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in London.
The finished drawings ''The Lady of Shalott'' and
Pippa Passes' (1854) are respectively displayed in the J.S. Maas Collection and the
Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology () on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of ...
in Oxford.
Siddal’s paintings also include Clerk Saunders (1857), ''The Haunted Wood'',
and ''Madonna and Child with an Angel'' (c. 1856).
Works inspired by Siddal
Literature
![Ms eng 769](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Ms_eng_769.jpg)
In the literature and memoirs during the 1880s and 90s, Elizabeth Siddal was depicted as "a fantasy sex" object in a manner of curious cult. Her admirers include the poet
Swinburne
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and
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
. The artist and aesthete
Charles Ricketts confessed that "Oh, we have all, when young, been in love with Miss Siddal." While in the 1920s and 30s, because of the prevalent paradigms of contemporary psychology and "sexology", the picture of Siddal in fiction and poems began to change by this re-establishment of sexuality environment. She was thus regarded as "a morbid, hysterical, suicidal woman clinging to her virginity and angrily jealous of her rivals."
Mollie Hardwick
Mollie Greenhalgh Hardwick (7 March 1916 in Prestwich, Lancashire – 13 December 2003), also known as Mary Atkinson, was an English author who was best known for writing books that accompanied the TV series '' Upstairs, Downstairs''.
Hardwi ...
(author of ''
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'') wrote a mystery novel entitled ''
The Dreaming Damozel'' in 1990.
The plot follows antique dealer Doran Fairweather, who is elated to find a small oil painting she believes to be of Elizabeth Siddal but is shocked when she happens on the body of a girl, floating dead in a pond.
The death scene mimics the Millais painting of Ophelia featuring Elizabeth Siddal.
Doran' excited by the coincidence and mystery, ignores the advice of her husband who warns her the story of Rossetti and Siddal was plagued by unhappiness.
Elizabeth Siddal, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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are the subjects of the short comics story ''
How They Met Themselves
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'', part of
''The Sandman'' series by
Neil Gaiman
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, drawn by
Michael Zulli, and published in ''Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3'' (2000). In it, a dying Lizzie drugged with laudanum revives the last New Year's Day, in which the trio had a train trip to a magic forest owned by
Desire
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.
The title makes reference to the Rossetti's 1864
doppelgänger
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In fiction and mythology, a doppelg ...
painting,
''How They Met Themselves''.
Fiona Mountain's 2002 mystery novel, ''Pale as the Dead'' centres on a "genealogical mystery" around the fictional descendants of Elizabeth Siddal and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
''Sleep, Pale Sister'', a 2004 Gothic novel set in the Victorian art world by the author
Joanne Harris
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, draws heavily on the character of Siddal and her relationship with Rossetti.
In
Tim Powers' 2012 novel ''
Hide Me Among the Graves'', Siddal is a victim of the vampire
John Polidori
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most succ ...
, her husband's uncle and author of what is likely the first vampire story. This becomes an explanation for her illness and death, as well as for her husband's exhumation of her grave, which is not to regain his poems but is part of a strategy to defeat the vampire.
''Ophelia's Muse'' is a 2015 historical novel by Rita Cameron. It tells the story of Siddal and the Pre-Raphelites.
''Lizzie Siddal'', a play written by Jeremy Green,
was performed at the Arcola Theatre, London in 2013.
Television
Rossetti's relationship with Siddal has been the subject of television dramas, notably ''
Dante's Inferno'' (1967), by
Ken Russell
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was a British film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films in the main were liberal adaptation ...
, in which she was played by and Rossetti by
Oliver Reed
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; ''
The Love School'' (1975) in which she was played by
Patricia Quinn; and ''
Desperate Romantics'' (2009) in which she was played by
Amy Manson
Amy Manson (born 9 September 1985) is a Scottish actress. She has portrayed Alice Guppy in ''Torchwood'', Abby Evans in '' Casualty'', Lizzie Siddal in ''Desperate Romantics'', Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri in '' Being Human'', Medea in ''Atlantis'' ...
.
Art
Holly Trostle Brigham has created works portraying and inspired by Siddal, exhibited in 2022 at the
Delaware Art Museum,
which also has a substantial Pre-Raphaellite collection.
Gallery
Works by Siddal
File:Elizabeth Siddal - The Lady of Shalott.jpg, ''The Lady of Shalott'', 1853, pen, black ink, sepia and pencil
File:Elizabeth Siddal - Pippa Passes.jpg, ''Pippa Passes'', 1854, pen and ink
File:Elizabeth Siddal - Two Lovers.jpg, ''Lovers Listening to Music'', 1854, pen and brown ink
File:Siddal quest grail.jpg, The Quest of the Holy Grail, 1855, watercolour, conceived by Siddal, executed jointly with Rossetti
File:Elizabeth Siddal - Holy Family.jpg, ''Holy Family'', circa 1856, watercolour, gouache and metallic paint
File:Clerk Saunders, 1857-5348297183.jpg, ''Clerk Sanders'', 1857, watercolour, bodycolour, coloured chalks
File:Elizabeth Siddal - Madonna and Child.jpg, ''Madonna and Child'', unknown date, watercolor on pencil
Works with Siddal as a model
File:Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus.jpg, William Holman Hunt
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, ''Two Gentlemen of Verona, Valentine Rescuing Sylvia From Proteus'', 1850 or 1851
File:Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast, Denies Him Her Salutation 02.jpg, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ''Beatrice meeting Dante at a marriage feast, denies him her salutation'', 1852
File:John Everett Millais, 1852 - Elizabeth Siddal - Study for Ophelia.jpg, John Everett Millais, ''Elizabeth Siddal - Study for Ophelia'', 1852
File:Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice (1853).jpg, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ''The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice'', 1853
File:Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah.jpg, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ''Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah'', 1855
File:Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Elizabeth Siddal (1850-65).jpg, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ''Elizabeth Siddal'', 1850–65
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External links
Selected Poetry of Elizabeth SiddalBeyond Ophelia Exhibition, Wightwick Manor, WolverhamptonBirmingham Museums & Art Gallery's Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource includes many portraits of Elizabeth Siddal by Rossetti
Portraits of Elizabeth Siddalfrom major Rossetti exhibition
Letters written by Elizabeth SiddalPhotographs of Elizabeth Siddal's grave*
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