If you get a chance to see The Rossettis exhibition at The Tate Britain before it closes on the 24 September take it! It is beautifully curated and follows the romance and radicalism of the Rossetti generation.
I particularly enjoyed how the exhibition explored the feminist attitudes of this group of artists. They challenged Victorian attitudes towards women dismissed by society as "fallen". Christina and Elizabeth wrote poems in the voices of young women coerced into marriage or seduced and left as outcasts.
There is also some stunning photography towards the end of the exhibition of Gabriel's muse, Jane Morris. She was just 18 years old when Gabriel met her outside a theatre in Oxford and asked her to pose as Queen Guinevere. His team included William Morris and shortly afterwards Jane married William Morris but Gabriel forever carried a flame for this striking woman.
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