Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly
broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed
the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles,
played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England;
they outraged their contemporaries with their loves, jealousies and
betrayals, and they stunned society when their complex moral
choices led to madness and suicide, or when their permissive
experiments ended in addiction and death. The characters are huge
and vivid and remain as compelling today as they were in their own
time. The influential critic, writer and artist John Ruskin was
their father figure and his apostles included the painter Dante
Gabriel Rossetti and the designer William Morris. They drew
extraordinary women into their circle. In a move intended to raise
eyebrows for its social audacity, they recruited the most ravishing
models they could find from the gutters of Victorian slums. The
saga is brought to life through the vivid letters and diaries kept
by the group and the accounts written by their contemporaries.
These real-lie stories shed new light on the greatest
nineteenth-century British art.
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