PRS Review - Archive Index
Our most recent editions (2021 - 2022) are below on this page.

Members of the PRS receive three copies of the PRS Review yearly,
numbering Spring, Summer and Autumn issues.
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​Previous Editions
​ 2017​ - 2020: Vols XXII - XXIV
2014​ - 2016: Vols XXII - XXIV
2011 - 2013: Vols XIX - XXI
2008 - 2010: Vols XVI - XVIII
2002 - 2007: Vols X- XV 
1993 - 2001: Vols I - IX

Volume XXX, Number 3, Autumn 2022

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Essays
Kirsty Stonell Walker - Fanny Cornforth, the Rogue Elephant
Sarah Hardy - How the Magic of Cannon Hall inspired the Spencer Stanhope Sisters
Emily McConkey - Evelyn De Morgan’s Medusa Bronze and its Serpentine Sources
Ester Diaz Morillo - ‘For there is no friend like a sister: Re-Presenting the Concept of Sisterhood through Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’
Glenda Youde -  ‘A Cuckoo in the Wrong Nest’? Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti’s Figure Study: Head of a Girl
Margje Bijl and Helena Cox - Behind the Scenes of the ‘Jane Morris Museum’ Exhibition Project
Dennis T. Lanigan - Helen Thornycroft’s The Death of St. Rosalia

Poetry
Sarah Doyle ‘Daughters of the Mist’
Allen Ashley ‘Four girls are burning autumn leaves’
Maria Emmons-Leone ‘Live My Own’

Book Reviews
Nat Reeve - The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti by Azelina Flint
Alex Round - The Poems of Elizabeth Siddal in Context by Anne Woolley
Stephanie Chatfield - The Poems of Evelyn Pickering De Morgan ed. Serena Trowbridge
Serena Trowbridge - Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth by Kirsty Stonell Walker

Exhibition Review
Sarah Hardy - Uncommon Power: Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown, Watts Gallery

Volume XXX, Number 2, Summer 2022

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Essays
Barrie Bullen - The Séance Diary of William Michael Rossetti
Dr Simon Cooke - Dürer and the Pre-Raphaelites: The ‘Germanic’ Illustrations of Rossetti and Sandys

Poetry
Sarah Doyle - Where the shapes of sleep convene for DGR
Chiara Salomoni - The Golden Stairs

Gallery Focus
Éva Péteri - The Beauty of Utopia. Pre Raphaelite influences in the Art of Turn-of-the-century Hungary
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

Exhibition Reviews
Desired Beauty: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate Collection, Rossetti’s Portraits

Book Reviews
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Portraits of Women
Pre-Raphaelites in the Spirit World: The Séance Diary of William Michael Rossetti
Edward Burne-Jones on Nature: Physical and Metaphysical Realms
William Morris
Sunset over Herne Hill: John Ruskin and South London

Volume XXX, Number 1, Spring 2022

John Pickard Essay Prize Winners
Laure Nermel - First Prize: ‘My God, my land, my father’ Sacrifice and family relationships in Jephthah’s Daughter by Elizabeth Siddal
Sheri M.A.Schrader - Second Prize: The Perseus Series: Reflecting on Victorian Sexuality
Alan Castree - Third Prize: George Du Maurier (1834–1896)–A Man Well Loved

Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize Winners
Rachel Carney - First Prize: You See Yourself, after Elizabeth Siddal, Pre-Raphaelite model, muse and painter
Ellora Sutton - Second Prize: Fragments Against Erinna’s Cheek20Kerry DarbishireThird Prize: From a Balcony
Poet-In-Residence’s Commendation: Shelley Roche-Jacques - Our April At-Home
Chair’s Commendation: Olga Dermott Ophelia’s head is finished

Pre-Raphaelite Society Painting Prize Winners
First Prize: Peter Mitchell - Sing Robin Sing
Second Prize: Marina Elphick - Winter
Joint Third Prize: Johanna Fößl -  ‘And I will give to you my summer wine’
                           Robby Pitts - The Bower Meadow
Runner Up: Beth Tang Soo Ping - The Three Elements
Runner Up: Michael Swihura - Girl

Poetry: Sarah Doyle - Greenscape
Gallery Focus: King Arthur’s Great Halls,Tintagel, Cornwall
Exhibition Reviews: Evelyn De Morgan – Pre-Raphaelite Artist of Hope;
Young Poland – The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement (1890–1918); Within the Reach of All: The Century Guild
Book Reviews: Unto this Last: A Novel;William Morris at Middleton Cheney;
Arts and Crafts Churches;Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement;
The Ophelia Girls; Last Nocturne; Goblin Market
Meeting Reports
Notes & Queries
Update: Margje Bijl - Collection of The Jane Morris Museum

Volume XXIX, Number 3, Fall 2021 Special Ford Madox Brown Issue

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Essays 
Dr Laura MacCulloch - Ford Madox Brown: Drawing History
Dr Simon Cooke -Ford Madox Brown as a Pre-Raphaelite Illustrator: Painting, Realism & Feeling
Elaine Williams - A Painter of Modern Life: Ford Madox Brown, Social Realism & Contemporary Society in the 19th Century
Caroline Nicholson - The Influence of Ford Madox Brown
A Member - A Journey with Ford Madox Brown
Rosie Jarvie – Portrait of a Pre-Raphaelite Patron: Ford Madox Brown’s Portrait of James Leathart
Jorge Contreras - The Seeds and Fruits of English Pre-Raphaelitism: Ford Madox Brown as Teacher and Student
Lisa Thefaut- The Girl in the Red Dress

Gallery Focus
Alastair Carew-Cox- Stained Glass of Ford Madox Brown in Staffordshire & Warwickshire

Poetry
Sarah Doyle - Greenscape
Karl Merrick – The Last of England (A Ballad Song of Loss)

Articles
Stephen G. Maddison- Ford Madox Brown’s Work: Spot the Differences
Michael Seeney- A Portrait of Ford Madox Brown by Harold Rathbone
Bill Hines - A Christmas Invitation: An unexpected treasure found in a rare copy of The Dwale Bluth, Hebditch’s Legacy and other literary remains of Oliver Madox Brown
Julie Whyman- The ‘Flower- Seller’ in Ford Madox Brown’s Work (1852-65)
Tim McGee- Ford Madox Brown in His Correspondence

Book Reviews
Stephen G. Maddison - Memories of a Pre-Raphaelite Youth by Ford Madox Ford
Chimaine Ross - Saints & Symbols by Alastair Carew-Cox
Mark Jones - Little Pigeon: Juliet Soskice & Chapters from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist’s Granddaughter

Meeting Reports
Notes and Queries

Volume XXIX, Number 2, Summer 2021

Contents
Katja Robinson - Editorial
Gallery Focus Kevin Hill - ‘Lost Stories’:
Stained Glass in Local Nottinghamshire Churches

Essays
Sophia Andres - Virginia Woolf ’s Pre-Raphaelite Incongruities in Orlando
Pamela Gerrish Nunn - Neo-Pre-Raphaelitism- Was It A Thing?
Margje Bijl & Helena Cox -  ‘Jane Morris Museum’ at Beverley Art Gallery
Alex Round - A Fluidity of Meaning: The Subversion of Pre-Raphaelite Gender within Rebecca Solomon’s The Governess Mark Jones - A Rossetti Matinée
Hilary Boucher - Laurence Hodson and Compton Hall Douglas Somerset - The Models for Convent Thoughts

Poetry
Sarah Doyle Waterhouse: An Encounter
Andrea Whytock - Goblin Market II

Reviews
Serena Trowbridge - Pre-Raphaelite Drawings & Watercolours: Ashmolean, Oxford
Roibeard Fionnagain - Temple of Science: The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Ester Díaz Morillo - Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics
Tim McGee - Angela Thirkell: A Writer’s Life
Jordan Kistler - Christina Rossetti
Sophia Andres - The Remarkable Lushington Family: Reformers, Pre-Raphaelites, Positivists and the Bloomsbury Group Stephen Maddison - The Moxon Tennyson: A Landmark in Victorian Illustration
Volume XXlX, Number 1, Spring 2021
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John Pickard Essay Prize Winners
Sarah Hardy - Reattributing The Nativity
Alan Castree - A Learned and Dreamy Englishman: G.F.Watts
Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize Winners
Ellora Sutton - And Mary Went with Haste to Elizabeth
Andrea Small - Effie
Jack Cooper - Lady Godiva Culls the Herd
Ellora Sutton - The Eve of St. Agnes
Jo Brandon - Marigolds
Pre-Raphaelite Society Painting Prize Winners
Elina Siddal - La Dame du Lac
Diana Tarlindano - Fatima
Thomas Dunwell - Joan of Arc
Johanna Folsi - The Tide of Dreams
Gallery Focus - The Stained Glass Windows of St. Peter, Harbertonford
The Victorian Web - Essays
The Rose Garden A "Lost" Illustration by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Caolyn Kaye - The Finding of Leonardo's Influence in the Temple Painting: Holman Hunt's 
Critical Re-Working of The Last Supper
Bill HInes - A Stry Bookplate from William Bell Scott
Serena Trowbridge - A Dancing Pre-Raphaelite?
Dennis T. Lanigan - John Lucas Tupper's Beryn and Syrophanes Playing Chess:
A Rediscovery: Sculpture at the extremest edge of 'PRBism"
Book Reviews
Mercedes Aguirre - The Unfinished Painting
Marina Fiorato - Crimson and Bone
Guest Editors Dinah Rose & Serena Trowbridge -
Victoriographies: A Journal of 19th Century Writing, 1790 - 1914
Kirsty Stonell Walker - Barely Clare: The Little-Known LIfe of Clare Mackail
Katja Robinson - Light and Love: The Extraordinary Developments of
Julia Margaret Cameron and Mary Hiller
Katherine Hinzman - Portrait of a Muse: Frances Graham, Edward Burne-Jones
and the Pre-Raphaelite Dream
Meeting Reports
Notes andf Queries
A Letter from the Chairman
​Go to: 2017​ - 2020: Vols XXIV - XXVlll
Go to: 2014​ - 2016: Vols XXII - XXIV
Go to: 2011 - 2013: Vols XIX - XXI
Go to: 2008 - 2010: Vols XVI - XVIII
Go to: 2002 - 2007: Vols X- XV 
Go to: 1993 - 2001: Vols I - IX

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