Beauty in thorns / Kate Forsyth.
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TextSeries: Read how you want 16Publisher: Strawberry Hills, New South Wales ReadHowYouWant, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: Large print editionDescription: i, 653 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781525260124 (paperback)Subject(s): Scandals -- Fiction | Artists -- Fiction | Artists' models -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction | Australian fiction | Large type books DDC classification: A823.3 Summary: In 1890, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones finished a monumental series of paintings inspired by Sleeping Beauty. Greeted with ecstasy by the public, it sold for a record 15,000 guineas and made the artist a rich and famous man. Told in the voices of eight extraordinary women - the wives and mistresses, sisters and daughters of the famous artists of the Pre-Raphaelite circle - this novel tells the dramatic story of love, desire, obsession and tragedy that lies behind the creation of this famous depiction of Sleeping Beauty.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Large Print | F FOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 22/05/2024 | AL42000249491B |
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Originally published: Vintage Books, 2017.
In 1890, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones finished a monumental series of paintings inspired by Sleeping Beauty. Greeted with ecstasy by the public, it sold for a record 15,000 guineas and made the artist a rich and famous man. Told in the voices of eight extraordinary women - the wives and mistresses, sisters and daughters of the famous artists of the Pre-Raphaelite circle - this novel tells the dramatic story of love, desire, obsession and tragedy that lies behind the creation of this famous depiction of Sleeping Beauty.
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