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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... eye and copious freckles, lived there, just across the street from Alice Cunningham, who had crooked, discolored teeth and thinning hair. Number 142 was the residence of Catherine Blair, whose neck and ear had been horribly burned when ...
... eye and copious freckles, lived there, just across the street from Alice Cunningham, who had crooked, discolored teeth and thinning hair. Number 142 was the residence of Catherine Blair, whose neck and ear had been horribly burned when ...
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... eyes, which might have been considered striking on another girl, were empty. They weren't sad; sadness could be fetching. They were not grave and serious or soft and pleading or tearful and melancholy. They were blank. Jane's eyes told ...
... eyes, which might have been considered striking on another girl, were empty. They weren't sad; sadness could be fetching. They were not grave and serious or soft and pleading or tearful and melancholy. They were blank. Jane's eyes told ...
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... eyes to prove it. Never a beauty, the years of hard work, first in the fields and then in Oxford's most squalid neighborhood, had taken their toll. One of her hips was higher than the other and rolled when she walked, or rather, limped ...
... eyes to prove it. Never a beauty, the years of hard work, first in the fields and then in Oxford's most squalid neighborhood, had taken their toll. One of her hips was higher than the other and rolled when she walked, or rather, limped ...
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... eyes were still sleepy with drink but her voice was sharp. “I often wonder where I went wrong,” she continued, “one daughter so ugly as to be deformed, the other as silly as a Punch and Judy show. I suppose it was marrying your father ...
... eyes were still sleepy with drink but her voice was sharp. “I often wonder where I went wrong,” she continued, “one daughter so ugly as to be deformed, the other as silly as a Punch and Judy show. I suppose it was marrying your father ...
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... booth, sipping a glass of beer. He had large, expres- sive eyes, dark as coal oil, deeply set in a face as smooth and chiseled as honey-colored Italian marble. A small, sardonic smile played across [13] THE WAYWARD MUSE.
... booth, sipping a glass of beer. He had large, expres- sive eyes, dark as coal oil, deeply set in a face as smooth and chiseled as honey-colored Italian marble. A small, sardonic smile played across [13] THE WAYWARD MUSE.
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