The Wayward MuseSimon and Schuster, 20 մրտ, 2007 թ. - 272 էջ "I apologize again for my boldness, but I must tell you that you're the most beautiful girl in Oxford. Maybe in all of England. I have to put you in my painting." With these words, the scandalous, wildly talented painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti changes seventeen-year-old Jane Burden's life forever. Jane's gaunt, awkward figure and grave expression have cemented her reputation as the ugliest girl in Oxford. Raised by a stableman on Holywell Street -- the town's most sordid and despicable slum -- Jane is nearly resigned to marry in-kind. But when she meets Rossetti at the theater, he sees beyond her worn, ill-fitting dress and unruly hair and is stirred by her unconventional beauty. The charismatic painter whisks Jane into Oxford's exclusive art scene as his muse, and during the long and intimate hours of modeling -- draping and tilting, gazing and posing -- Jane finds herself falling in love. When Rossetti abruptly leaves Oxford with no plans to return, brokenhearted Jane settles for a stable, if passionless, marriage to his soft-spoken protégé, William Morris -- the man who would go on to become the father of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Jane resigns herself to life as a respectable wife and mother, exchanging the slop bucket for intricate needlepoint, willing away the memories of Rossetti and what could have been. But Rossetti and Jane are inextricably bound together by tragedy, art, and desire, and no amount of time or distance can separate them. Ultimately this complicated arrangement with which Jane, Morris, and Rossetti must learn to live threatens to undo them all. Richly textured and deftly portrayed, Elizabeth Hickey's latest is a compelling portrait of the ever-changing notions of both love and beauty. |
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... Jane's eyes told everyone who met her of her misery and her despair. They told of a girl who had ceased to hope for anything, who had gone deep inside herself to withstand her lot. It made the others uneasy. Jane fretted about her ...
... Jane's eyes told everyone who met her of her misery and her despair. They told of a girl who had ceased to hope for anything, who had gone deep inside herself to withstand her lot. It made the others uneasy. Jane fretted about her ...
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... Jane's mother had put it. No, she couldn't imagine anything worse. Even to live out in the open, in the rain and ... Jane. “Or there's a hole in the container.” “Well, I'm not going to mop up that filth,” Bessie announced. She sat down ...
... Jane's mother had put it. No, she couldn't imagine anything worse. Even to live out in the open, in the rain and ... Jane. “Or there's a hole in the container.” “Well, I'm not going to mop up that filth,” Bessie announced. She sat down ...
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... Jane went back into the muck of the cellar. The fetid sludge had risen to her ankles. She was concerned that the pressure on the wall might bring the whole thing down. Jane could only pray that stuffing the crack would hold it until ...
... Jane went back into the muck of the cellar. The fetid sludge had risen to her ankles. She was concerned that the pressure on the wall might bring the whole thing down. Jane could only pray that stuffing the crack would hold it until ...
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... Jane said. She felt like crying, but that would only enrage her mother further. “Useless girl,” said Mrs. Burden ... Jane's throat closed. Her collar was choking her. Tom Barnstable was a tall, gangly youth of twenty with a walleye ...
... Jane said. She felt like crying, but that would only enrage her mother further. “Useless girl,” said Mrs. Burden ... Jane's throat closed. Her collar was choking her. Tom Barnstable was a tall, gangly youth of twenty with a walleye ...
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... Jane faintly. “Tom is a bully. He hits his little sisters; I've seen the bruises.” “An ear boxing or two would do you good,” said Mrs. Burden. “I've spoiled ... Jane's daydreams comforted her, but not today. She could [7] THE WAYWARD MUSE.
... Jane faintly. “Tom is a bully. He hits his little sisters; I've seen the bruises.” “An ear boxing or two would do you good,” said Mrs. Burden. “I've spoiled ... Jane's daydreams comforted her, but not today. She could [7] THE WAYWARD MUSE.
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