Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal was an English artists model, poet and artist. She was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She featured prominently in Rossettis early paintings of women.
Named Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, after her mother, Lizzie Siddall was born onJuly 1829, at the familys home atCharles Street, Hatton Garden. Her parents were Charles Crooke Siddall, who claimed his family descended from nobility, and Eleanor Evans, from a family of English and Welsh descent. At the time of her birth, her father had a cutlerymaking business but around 1831, her family moved to the borough of Southwark, in south London, a less salubrious area than Hatton Garden. In Southwark the rest of Lizzie Siddalls siblings were born Lydia, to whom she was particularly close, Mary, Clara, James and Henry. Although there is no record of Lizzie Siddall having attended school, she could read and write, presumably having been taught by her parents. She developed a love of poetry at a young age, after discovering a poem by Tennyson on a scrap of newspaper that had been used to wrap a pat of butter the discovery was an inspiration to start writing her own poems.
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