The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddal

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall was born on 25th July, 1829 in London into a working class family where she received an ‘ordinary education’. Whilst accounts may differ, it is clear that she met the Pre-Raphaelite painter William Deverell whilst working in a millinery shop and he asked her to model for him, describing her as "magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling ... she has grey eyes, and her hair is like dazzling copper, and shimmers with lu