A vivid account of the public art and private demons of Ford Madox Brown, the finest but least understood of Pre-Raphaelite artists and the four central women in his life- his two wives and models
Angela Thirlwell read English at Oxford and lectured at Birkbeck College, University of London until 1999. Her books include the Folio Anthology of Autobiography (1994), The Pre-Raphaelites and their World (editor, 1995) and William and Lucy- The Other Rossettis (Yale, 2003).
To make a fresh point of view, Thirwell crafts her portrait of
Brown through four relationships that had a powerful effect on his
emotional life as well as on his career
*The Art Newspaper*
Engrossing
*TLS*
this fascinating biography is a reminder of how easily women
artists and writers are lost to us through history
*The Herald*
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