Rossetti

 

Dante Rossetti the charismatic young artist falls in love with Lizzie Siddal. After some persuasion she agrees to sit for him exclusively. He has many admirers that invariably sour their relations. Rossetti goes to visit his friend Hunt only to find he has already left for the east. Annie his wife to be invites Rossetti in, and they share their troubles together. But Lizzie cannot take anymore of her lover's nonsense. She goes to Paris without him.

 

Christina Rossetti’s life although is different to that of her two brothers Dante and William and sister Maria, it is nevertheless fascinating. She writes poetry, she falls in and out of love with various suitors. Her friends are mostly feminist artists and poets who do the most daring things.

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Review: Rossetti finished! A very touching conclusion, I feel as though a group of friends I’d got to know well have suddenly packed up and emigrated to the Far East. All those interwoven lives and fortunes, ending as it began with Christina, and famous people presented in their day to day affairs.

                                          George Miller Author of The Buzzards of Zinn