Valiant Seton

<p>Married to the world-famous Victorian artist George Frederic Watts Mary was a suffragist and designer with a curious artistic interest in Death. As creator of the Watts Mortuary Chapel she was a pioneer of the Celtic Revival who elevated the status of craftswomen on both sides of the Atlantic.</p><p>In this first biography to focus exclusively on Mary's life before marriage Valiant Seton examines the pivotal role her Fraser Tytler ancestors played in Scotland's literary heritage her upbringing in a remote highland castle the flamboyance of her decorative art and her entry into the epicentre of the English artworld. A disastrous love affair in Rome tormented the young artist for years punctuating her march into the heart of her 'painter of painters.' </p><p>Valiant Seton is a compelling account of Mary's turbulent life and her emergence from her aristocratic chrysalis into a social reforming craftswoman and life-partner extraordinaire of England's Michelangelo.</p><p><br></p>