tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post6983685705085428497..comments2024-03-25T18:27:37.374+00:00Comments on The Kissed Mouth: The Golden Stairs Shine With TearsKirsty Stonell Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08342964877965021654noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-59905064235279780602017-11-16T22:14:33.258+00:002017-11-16T22:14:33.258+00:00I do! Lillie Langtry claims to be in the picture ...I do! Lillie Langtry claims to be in the picture in two places but none of the faces look anything like her; they are all very stylised (is that even a word?).Les Tranterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238167378076429530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-63463433817699435262017-11-16T17:36:07.588+00:002017-11-16T17:36:07.588+00:00It might be that he made Frankenstein's stunne...It might be that he made Frankenstein's stunners of them, a bit of one and a bit of another to build his perfect girl, so any preparatory sketches have to be taken into consideration but might not mean that just that one girl is in the figure, if you know what I mean.<br />Kirsty Stonell Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08342964877965021654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-33746996713690854402017-11-16T17:24:51.692+00:002017-11-16T17:24:51.692+00:00Picking up, once again, my obsession with the ladi...Picking up, once again, my obsession with the ladies on The Golden Stairs. It was generally thought that the seventh lady down, stooping, was Edith Gellibrand, aka Chester, but the sale of EBJ study drawings last year now seems to indicate that the lady is Dorothy Dene. Sold at the same time is a study believed to be Mary Stuart Wortley but to my eye it does not seem to match any of the girls on the stairs. Any thoughts?Les Tranterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238167378076429530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-74899716832140273172013-02-04T13:50:13.054+00:002013-02-04T13:50:13.054+00:00Me too! What did you make of my theory that sexual...Me too! What did you make of my theory that sexual frustration, guilt, and paternal jealousy were the ingredients of the toxic rocket fuel that blasted The Golden Stairs and others among EBJs late works into the psychological outer space where they still circle our workaday globe?simon.poehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01747299467622711958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-19387619091092980532013-02-04T13:38:14.089+00:002013-02-04T13:38:14.089+00:00Thank you Simon, silly Blogger ate the link: http:...Thank you Simon, silly Blogger ate the link: http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=dennis-denisoff-the-hermetic-order-of-the-golden-dawn-1888-1901<br /><br />Thanks for emailing it to me. I am slightly obsessed by The Golden Stairs now, it's such a bevy of beauties for poor old Ned to cope with!Kirsty Stonell Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08342964877965021654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-81970553040933623332013-02-04T13:26:00.104+00:002013-02-04T13:26:00.104+00:00There's an interesting reference to Florence F...There's an interesting reference to Florence Farr, actress, friend of May Morris, one of the girls on The Golden Stairs (and hence an outer-circle stunner) and member of the Golden Dawn, here: .simon.poehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01747299467622711958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-62241228458673074462013-01-23T20:40:54.489+00:002013-01-23T20:40:54.489+00:00Yes, and Annie Miller lived to a ripe old age, as ...Yes, and Annie Miller lived to a ripe old age, as did, in theory, Fanny and Jane. Alexa and Elizabeth are the exception in the main Stunner stakes, but it is interesting how so many of our beauties' lives contrasted with their rather more work-a-day lives, replete with illness, bad marriages and misery. <br /><br />Thanks for your comments.Kirsty Stonell Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08342964877965021654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-74224084240484143772013-01-23T20:16:42.937+00:002013-01-23T20:16:42.937+00:00What about Ruth Herbert? When Georgie interviewed ...What about Ruth Herbert? When Georgie interviewed her years later, during the research for Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, about posing for the Pre-Raphaelites, she told her “I never saw such men, it was being in a new world to be with them. I sat to them and was there with them and they were different to everyone else I ever saw. And I was a holy thing to them – I was a holy thing to them”.simon.poehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01747299467622711958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-74050384301664846092013-01-23T19:48:46.073+00:002013-01-23T19:48:46.073+00:00If you're looking for a Pre-Raphaelite model w...If you're looking for a Pre-Raphaelite model who didn't have a disastrous early death, try Marie Spartali. She not only modelled for Rossetti, but became an accomplished Pre-Raphaelite painter in her own right, her favourite subjects being scenes from the poetry of Boccaccio, doubtless as a result of Rossetti's influence. She later married an American journalist, one William James Stillman, and by all accounts, the marriage was a happy one. She went on to have a daughter whom she named Euphrosyne, after one of the Three Graces (an allusion to the fact that she, along with two other Greek beauties of the era, were referred to as "The Three Graces" in London high society in the 1860s), used her influence to promote Pre-Raphaelite art to American art patrons, and went on to become one of the last of the Victorian "Grandes Dames", finally leaving this life in 1927 at the age of 83.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13640513873997585374noreply@blogger.com