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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... gone deep inside herself to withstand her lot. It made the others uneasy. Jane fretted about her ugliness, of course. A poor girl's looks were all she had, and without them she could never hope to marry. Without marriage her life would ...
... gone deep inside herself to withstand her lot. It made the others uneasy. Jane fretted about her ugliness, of course. A poor girl's looks were all she had, and without them she could never hope to marry. Without marriage her life would ...
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... gone. Mrs. Burden beckoned Jane into the kitchen. She lumbered over to the rocking chair and lowered herself onto it with a groan, but Jane knew better than to sit. She stood in front of her mother and waited. “I met Mrs. Barnstable ...
... gone. Mrs. Burden beckoned Jane into the kitchen. She lumbered over to the rocking chair and lowered herself onto it with a groan, but Jane knew better than to sit. She stood in front of her mother and waited. “I met Mrs. Barnstable ...
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... gone. A man was selling lemonade at a booth across the lobby, and Jane was just wishing she had money to buy some when she felt that someone was staring at her. She looked around and her gaze locked with that of a young man slouched ...
... gone. A man was selling lemonade at a booth across the lobby, and Jane was just wishing she had money to buy some when she felt that someone was staring at her. She looked around and her gaze locked with that of a young man slouched ...
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... gone, and Bessie was beside her again, holding the playbill Peter Gourley had bought her. Jane said nothing to her sister, knowing that even if she could explain what she had felt when the dark young man stared at her, Bessie would tell ...
... gone, and Bessie was beside her again, holding the playbill Peter Gourley had bought her. Jane said nothing to her sister, knowing that even if she could explain what she had felt when the dark young man stared at her, Bessie would tell ...
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... said, and smiled, horribly, Jane thought. “Yes,” she said. She watched him saunter away and, when she was sure he was gone, ran as fast as she could toward the woods where she and Bessie liked to go and gather walnuts. [22] Elizabeth ...
... said, and smiled, horribly, Jane thought. “Yes,” she said. She watched him saunter away and, when she was sure he was gone, ran as fast as she could toward the woods where she and Bessie liked to go and gather walnuts. [22] Elizabeth ...
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