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Jonty Claypole

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Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

Incidentally, it went out of fashion, rightly, very much in the 20th century until a revival started in the 1970s, which was in part led by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And that, for me, is everything you need to know about the pre-Raphaelites.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

It is.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

Well, she's going to be a hugely important figure in this poem.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

Her name is Lizzie Siddle, and she was the muse of the pre-Raphaelites.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

Lizzie Siddle had amazing flaming red hair.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

She was daughter of a cutler, which is somebody who makes cutlery, and they sort of picked her up in a hat shop.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

She was also a really brilliant artist in her own right, and I would argue that...

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

She wasn't too timid to tell Millais that the lamps had gone out and she was cold.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

She was just committed to the painting being completed.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

She became Rossetti's mistress and eventually his wife.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And so she became Christina's sister-in-law.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And I'm going to come back to her later in this episode.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

Say no more.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

I have a whole work up around this later.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

Oh, good.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

Yeah, we're going to go hard into it.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

But what's really interesting is the next 10 years, she disappears again.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

And it's almost like she's eclipsed by her brother and the notoriety of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.

Secret Life of Books
Sucking the Forbidden Fruit: Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

But through the 1850s, it's often very hard to see what she's doing.