Mathilde Blind
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Mathilde Blind, was a German-born English poet, fiction writer, biographer, essayist and critic. In the early 1870s she emerged as a pioneering female aesthete in a mostly male community of artists an
Chalk portrait of Mathilde Blind by Lucy Madox Brown, 1872
Ford Madox Brown
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Ford Madox Brown was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable pain
Mathilde Blind
…the publisher of The Prophecy of St. Oran and Other Poems, Newman & Co., to withdraw the book from circulation. As William Michael Rossetti wrote to Ford Madox Brown, Newman & Co. "had got frightened by somebody about the atheistic character of the book, and had determined to sell it no more". In 1866, Blind's brother…
Self-portrait 1850
Ragamuffins
Brown, on the left, with William Holman Hunt. Caricature by Max Beerbohm from Rossetti and His Circle.
The Last of England depicting an emigrating couple, 1855