Ophelia's Muse

"I''ll never want to draw anyone else but you. You are my muse. Without you there is no art in me."

With her pale, luminous skin and cloud of copper-colored hair, nineteen-year-old Lizzie Siddal looks nothing like the rosy-cheeked ideal of Victorian beauty. Working in a London milliner''s shop, Lizzie stitches elegant bonnets destined for wealthier young women, until a chance meeting brings her to...