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2 1 y separately published work icon Beauty in Thorns Kate Forsyth , ( nar. Juliette Burton ) Leicester : W. F. Howes , 2017 10896638 2017 single work novel historical fiction

'The Pre-Raphaelites were obsessed with liberating art and love from the shackles of convention. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was the self-professed leader of the mysterious brotherhood of young men who were convinced they could change the world.

'Rossetti was smitten with his favourite model, Lizzie Siddal. Lizzie had dreams of becoming an artist herself; however, gripped by jealousy at her lover’s perceived infidelities she was falling prey to a laudanum addiction.

Gabriel’s friend Ned Jones had never had any artistic training and his family wanted him to be a parson. Only young Georgie Macdonald – the daughter of a Methodist minister – understood.

'Their Pre-Raphaelite brother William ‘Topsy’ Morris fell head-over-heels for a ‘stunner’ from the slums. Seventeen-year-old Janey Burden had a wild, dark beauty. She would become Morris’ wife, but Gabriel’s most famous model.

'Years later, cuckolded by the man he had hero-worshipped, Topsy turned to Georgie for comfort. She too was suffering. Soon after the birth of their daughter Margot, Ned had begun an ardent liaison with his model. Scandal threatened to destroy them all.

'Inspired by this true story of passionate women and men who believed that the beauty of art did make the every day life of all citizens more satisfying, Beauty in Thorns is a novel about awakenings of all kinds.'

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