The true story of Elizabeth Siddal as an artist in her own right separated from the. It is our aim instead to deconstruct the image of Lizzie as the dying Ophelia through the analysis of suffering as a form of female endurance, empowerment and resistance strategy in order to assert her voice. Cover image for The legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Not only has Siddal tended to be addressed as the depressive drug addict, but many aesthetic and cultural analyses have represented her as the rejected dead bride, thus relating femaleness to suffering, rejection and, ultimately, alienation. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Yet, it is likely that she committed suicide. Buy The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal New by Marsh, Jan (ISBN: 9780704301702) from Amazon's Book Store. Lizzie’s continuous poor health and the destructive addiction to laudanum led her to death. The same images are depicted in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting and poetry, the Pre- Raphaelites’ mentor, who ended up portraying Lizzie as the ideal female image of suffering, pain and death, after marrying her. Lizzie, the fair and the loveable red-haired muse becomes, paradoxically, the sick, ethereal maid, her pathos identifying on canvas unattended love with both physical and psychological suffering. As the model of John Everett Millais, Lizzie Siddal becomes the perfect image of the sad and suffering Ophelia. Amongst the images of women in Victorian England, there is the paradigmatic case of Ophelia: the sick, insane, fragile woman who drowns, dying of a broken heart.
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