Sophie Gee
speaker
11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the myth of proserpine in the Metamorphoses.
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The goddess proserpine bites into a pomegranate and becomes imprisoned in the underworld.
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And again, we're seeing William Morris's wife, Jane Morris, here,
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eating the pomegranate.
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It's an incredibly beautiful painting.
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Very lush.
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It's almost menacing.
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Yeah, let's bring things into a landing with Dickens.
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So this is a William Holman Hunt painting.
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Very early on, we had William Holman Hunt.
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He did the Chaucer in the Court of Edward III.
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And now here he is again with what was probably his most famous and his most provocative painting.
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It's called The Awakening Conscience, and it's from 1853.
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So just the year after Dickens publishes Bleak House, when he's at the height of his powers.
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It's a picture of a woman playfully, but sort of in a worried way, sitting on a man's lap in a lavishly decorated Victorian parlour.
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She's looking in a sort of almost feverish alarm out at the space beyond the painting itself.
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So she's both seeking escape, but she's feeling very enclosed.
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The painting caused a massive stir because people realised from the brightness of the colour in the room and little sort of hints like the unravelled yarn on the floor, the dropped glove, the scraps of fabric.
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Right, the cat killing a bird.
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That this was an allegory of unmarried
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