TY - BOOK ID - 80832269 TI - Jane Morris : the burden of history PY - 2013 SN - 9780748681921 0748681922 9780748641277 0748641270 9780748641277 0748684409 PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Artists' models KW - Models, Artists' KW - Models (Persons) KW - Morris, Jane, KW - Burden, Jane, KW - Morris, Jane Burden, KW - Women KW - Civilization, Modern KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Civilization KW - Nineteenth century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80832269 AB - Described by Henry James as a 'dark, silent, medieval woman', Jane Burden Morris has tended to remain a rather one-dimensional figure in subsequent accounts. This book, however, challenges the stereotype of Jane Morris as silent model, reclusive invalid, and unfaithful wife. Drawing on extensive archival research as well as the biographical and literary tradition surrounding William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the book argues that Jane Morris is a figure who complicates current understandings of Victorian female subjectivity because she does not fit neatly into Victorian categories of feminine identity. She was a working-class woman who married into middle-class affluence, an artist's model who became an accomplished embroiderer and designer, and an apparently reclusive, silent invalid who was the lover of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Wilfred Scawen Blunt. ER -