My Ladys Soul: The Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall

Elizabeth Siddall is best known as the muse and model for many Pre-Raphaelite artists and as the wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. However she was also an artist and a poet. This book publishes all her extant poetry in a single volume for the first time. Serena Trowbridge has undertaken extensive archival research to restore Siddalls better-known poems - often heavily edited in previous publications - to their original form and to identify and reproduce poems and fragments not previously included in anthologies. Elizabeth Siddalls own voice emerges fully from these pages supporting her rediscovery as a creative artist in her own right.Each poem is accompanied by notes and analysis and the detailed introduction extensive bibliography and biographical timeline position Siddall in her historical literary and critical contexts. Appendices include a previously unpublished letter from Siddall and poems by other writers that relate to her life and work. The book is illustrated with portraits of Siddall and examples of her own art.Dr. Serena Trowbridge is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Birmingham City University. Her monograph Christina Rossettis Gothic (Bloomsbury) was published in 2013 and other publications include Past present and future death in the graveyard in Gothic and Death ed. Carol Davison (Manchester University Press 2017) Truth to Nature The Pleasures and Dangers of the Environment in Christina Rossettis Poetry in Victorians and the Environment ed. Lawrence Mazzeno (Ashgate 2017) Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum (edited with Thomas Knowles) (Pickering & Chatto 2014) and Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities (edited with Amelia Yeates) (Ashgate 2014). Serena was editor of the Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society 2005-2017.