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To: Pyro7480
another redhead, but with impassive features. ;') Rossetti painted "Beata Beatrix" some years after her death, and it remains my favorite of Siddal. [for all:] Lizzie died (ODed, perhaps accidentally) while pregnant with Rossetti's child, while he was off committing adultery.
Beata Beatrix
We'll have to tell 'em all about the exhumation sometime...
275 posted on 01/17/2005 9:07:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on January 13, 2005)
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To: SunkenCiv
We'll have to tell 'em all about the exhumation sometime...

Are you talking about the fact that Rossetti buried all of the manuscripts of his early poems in Siddal's coffin, which were subseqeuently dig up at the convincing of his "friend" Charles Howell?

281 posted on 01/17/2005 9:22:11 AM PST by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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Interesting juxtaposition between the sundial and her (clears throat) apparent feelings of euphoria, as I note the well house to my right http://www.lyricsondemand.com/o/ozarkmountaindaredevilslyrics/jackiebluelyrics.html


285 posted on 01/17/2005 9:58:52 AM PST by sully777 (our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
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