Sophie Gee
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11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And of course, Rossetti's house on Cheney Walk, which we spoke about in our Christina Rossetti episode, was an absolute hub for a kind of artistic literary set in mid-19th century London.
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It was the home of the beloved Womibato top, which
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But so much more than that.
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The other thing that really struck me as we were doing a round of this room is that the Pre-Raphaelites are this kind of fascinating bridge between the aesthetic movement of Oscar Wilde and his circle and the very much Pre-Victorian kind of art being produced by William Hogarth
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that kind of style of the narrative painting or the conversation painting set in a city.
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think of Hogarth as being a kind of one-off British artist, but you really see the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites.
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Tell us about the movement.
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Before Raphael spoiled everything.
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They called themselves, it was their own name that they gave themselves, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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color is incredibly heightened the the gestures that the figures are making are sort of exaggerated the way that the joseph figure leans over the carpenter's table is very pronounced the mother and daughter make this kind of hyper intimate scene the glances of the other people in the room are exaggerated it's almost chiaroscuro yes chiaroscuro
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He's got a sort of scrap of fur around his middle.
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know who led the charge of the protests?
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It was Dickens.
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didn't like it, which I actually find really surprising.
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It must have been that Dickensian thing of, like, someone's on my turf.
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You know, I'm the guy who goes into the squalid working classes.
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real tell.
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When Dickens gets really hit up about something, it means that he's pissed that someone else stole his idea.
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Yes, because he is, of course, the father of English literature.
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And the reason that Chaucer is thought of as the father of English literature, right from the Canterbury Tales, but also Troilus and Crusade that we did a couple of weeks ago, is that he was writing in the vernacular.
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