Desperate Romantics
The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites
$31.51
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2009
Summary
Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England; they outraged their contemporaries with their loves, jealousies and betrayals, and they stunned society when their complex moral choices led to madness and suicide, or when their permissive experiments ended in addiction and death. The…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848540507 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848540507 |
| Author: | Franny Moyle |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 315g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 27mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘The age of the Romantics is alive and well in this fascinating book that accompanies the BBC series of the same name’
‘The jauntiness of her approach is a refreshing antidote to the incestuous, dreamlike claustrophobia of these interlocking lives. Her book is powerful, absorbing and, well, rather jolly’ - Sunday Times
‘The age of the Romantics is alive and well in this fascinating book that accompanies the BBC series of the same name’ - Tatler‘Read about the truth behind John and Effie Ruskin’s unconsummated marriage … and a host of other seemingly respectable ‘Blue Plaque’ names who lived their lives at a pace that would leave Damien Hirst and Jake and Dinos Chapman breathless’ - The ResidentSir John Ure is absorbed by an account of the Pre-Raphaelites … Franny Moyle [is] a scholarly and highly entertaining chronicler of their unruly exploits - Sir John Ure, Country Life‘Moyle’s book captures all the sex, madness and addiction, making modern-day sagas seem downright dull!’ - Glamour‘This has been well-covered before but she retells it with exceptional vigour and with fine detail culled from original sources’ - Daily ExpressThe book is packed with colourful illustrations and drawings, while the words are pretty darned colourful too’ - Birmingham Post‘Moyle tells the story with great verve, and the forthcoming drama based on her book should be one to look out for’ - ChoiceAbout The Author
Franny Moyle
Franny Moyle has a degree in English and History of Art from St John’s College, Cambridge. She has played a key role in the BBC’s arts programming, most recently as Commissioner of Arts and Culture across the BBC’s four main channels. A year ago she left to pursue her own projects and is now a freelance executive producer, handling some of their major cultural series. She is a director of the Hackney Empire, near her home in East London, and is married with three children.
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