Stunner
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Stunner

The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Stunner

The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth

About this book

Fanny Cornforth was a Victorian supermodel whose face epitomised the vision and life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In their twenty-five years together, she played many parts from muse, medium and lover to housekeeper and nurse. Due to her care of the artist, he was able to create some of the best known and celebrated art works of the nineteenth century, however at his death Fanny became an outcast, accused of stealing, lying and even murder. Her journey from rural poverty to celebrated beauty gave her a life she could never have dreamed of, but her choice of love above security saw her end her days in an asylum. Her afterlife, in the imagination of those who knew her and those that followed saw her cast as a villainess; Rossetti's folly, an illiterate prostitute who could crack walnut shells in her teeth. It's finally time that the truth is separated from the swirl of lies and that the life of one of the most infamous women of Bohemian London is told, from canvas to asylum.

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Information

Publisher
Unicorn
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781914414145
eBook ISBN
9781911397465

Table of contents

  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. CONTENTS
  3. FOREWORD BY JAN MARSH
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. FAMILY TREE
  6. ONE: Sarah Cox
  7. TWO: The Ruined Maid
  8. THREE: Nutshells
  9. FOUR: Found
  10. FIVE: The Kissed Mouth
  11. SIX: Marriage
  12. SEVEN: Death
  13. EIGHT: The Queen of Tudor House
  14. NINE: La Flâneuse
  15. TEN: Table Turning
  16. ELEVEN: Jane
  17. TWELVE: Under Attack
  18. THIRTEEN: The Forty-First Elephant
  19. FOURTEEN: Kelmscott
  20. FIFTEEN: Elephant and Rhino’s Final Fling
  21. SIXTEEN: The Late-Comer
  22. SEVENTEEN: Chloral and Arguments
  23. EIGHTEEN: Blackmail
  24. NINETEEN: A Champion from the West
  25. TWENTY: An Elephant’s End
  26. TWENTY-ONE: Fanny, Immortal
  27. APPENDIX I: Fanny’s Letters to Samuel Bancroft Jnr
  28. APPENDIX II: The Rossetti Gallery Exhibition Catalogue
  29. FURTHER READING
  30. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  31. PICTURE CREDITS
  32. INDEX
  33. COPYRIGHT