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    The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal
    Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
    Pre-Raphealite Circle
    Pre-Raphaelite Women
    William Morris's Flowers
    Harnessing Hope
    • 2024

      Roly was a grape, who was part of a bunch, Wondering if one day he'd be someone's lunch? The grapes were a group, a family, a team. Not really that special, or so it would seem... Meet Roly! He's a purple, plucky, positive grape, who embarks on an exciting adventure and learns to believe in himself

      The Fruit Salad Series - The Great Grape Escape
    • 2023
    • 2023

      Jan Marsh examines Elizabeth Siddal's story to coincide with The Rossetti's exhibition at Tate Britain.

      Elizabeth Siddal
    • 2022

      The first fully illustrated and comprehensive introduction to May Morris’s work as an artist, designer, and embroiderer, published in association with the V&A and the William Morris Gallery, London. Now available in paperback. May Morris (1862–1938) was a significant figure in the British Arts and Crafts movement and a pioneer of art embroidery. She ran the embroidery department of Morris & Co., as well as designing textiles, wallpapers, and jewelry. Morris was also an influential teacher and lectured in the United States and across the United Kingdom. May Morris, now in paperback, presents the full range of Morris’s work and reveals her exceptional skill and originality. It draws together her designs, exquisite embroideries, watercolors, costume, and jewelry from museums around the world, and in particular the rich collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the William Morris Gallery, London. The book contains more than 180 objects in color alongside detailed information on their materials and provenance compiled by leading experts. There are also new insights into Morris’s personal life and relationships, her social activism, and her support for other craftswomen. This authoritative and illuminating study places Morris, whose reputation has been overshadowed by that of her father William Morris, firmly among the leading British designer-makers of the Arts and Crafts movement.

      May Morris
    • 2020

      A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to the work of Aubrey Beardsley, one of the defining artists of the Art Nouveau style. Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) was only twenty-five when he died from tuberculosis, but in his short life he established a reputation as one of the most accomplished—and controversial—illustrators of his day. Astonishingly, all his work was created in the course of only six years, yet his contribution to the visual language of Art Nouveau was profound; today, his work is instantly recognizable for its use of black ink and flowing lines on white paper, along with its erotically charged subject matter. Not all his work was sexually provocative—much was satirical, attacking the decadent mores of the time—but some was and remains shocking, taking its stylistic inspiration from Japanese shunga and Greek vase painting and its thematic inspiration from mythology, history, poetry, and drama. This beautifully designed, accessibly priced book offers a wealth of illustrations by Beardsley, and introduces his exquisitely crafted drawings and prints to a new audience. Including a fascinating text by Jan Marsh, Aubrey Beardsley brings together a carefully curated selection of works from Beardsley’s tragically short but highly productive life.

      Aubrey Beardsley
    • 2019

      Dealing with Depression

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Written by a psychologist with 40 years' experience, Dealing With Depression, offers an empowering holistic approach that can be tailored to the individual.

      Dealing with Depression
    • 2019

      William Morris's Flowers

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      4.3(79)Add rating

      A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to designs by William Morris that incorporate flowers--a central motif in his oeuvre and one that played a part in the majority of his designs.

      William Morris's Flowers
    • 2019

      Who were those women who sat for the Pre-Raphaelite painters? Muses to an exclusively male genius, of tragic stature and uncertain health - were they indeed as passive as their portrait painters and their critics contrived to suggest? Jan Marsh reveals the actual lives behind the myth of the Pre- Raphaelite women.

      Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
    • 2018

      Anna Mason's Watercolour World

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      4.2(38)Add rating

      'The first thing that's likely to strike you about this absolutely stunning book is the magnificent quality of the reproduction...this is a quite radically different book and it contains much to like.' The ArtistLearn to paint with Anna Mason, using this inspiring, practical watercolour guide.

      Anna Mason's Watercolour World
    • 2018

      A very handsome illustrated history of the linked lives and loves of a group of supremely talented artists of late Victorian Britain through their passionate writings. The artistic aspirations and achievements of the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood as revealed alongside the interwoven dramas of their personal lives, in letters, diaries and reminiscences, while their genius is displayed in vivid paintings, drawings, designs and poems They shared tragedy as well as happiness, critical hostility as well as success, even the griefs of infidelity and discord.

      The Pre-Raphaelites - Their lives in Letters and Diaries