The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood

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This paper focuses on six female painters from the pre-Raphaelite movement. The purpose of the paper is to show how some of the less popular painters of the movement proceeded in order to represent the ideal of the pre-Raphaelite woman. The painters discussed are Sophie Anderson, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Lucy Madox Brown, Anne Louise Swynnerton, Evelyn de Morgan and Kate Elizabeth Bunce.

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Sophie Anderson and Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale: of Children and Virgins
Lucy Madox Brown and Anne Louise Swynnerton: the Woman Rebel
Evelyn de Morgan and Kate Elizabeth Bunce: Woman as Myth
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"A considerable number of women were active in every phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Some, as was the case for Elizabeth Siddal and Lucy Madox Brown, incorporated the ideas of their husbands and fathers into their own art. Others were deeply influenced by the freshness of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, by the resourceful, pious and naturalistic vision of its members and followers. At the same time, the condition of Victorian women was more than ambiguous - women had no right to vote but could open their own commerce, were published and read, and their daughters would soon know Margaret Fuller."

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