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.
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
Members of the PRS receive three copies of the PRS Review yearly,
numbering Spring, Summer and Autumn issues.
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 XXXI, Number 1, Spring 2023
John Pickard Essay Prize Winners
First Prize Isabella McDonald - ‘This same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying’: Floral femininity and ideas of temporality in John William Waterhouse’s Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May paintings
Second Prize Larissa Jennings - Fashioning Medievalism: The Aesthetic Dress Movement’s use of medievalism to subvert late nineteenth century female gender roles
Third Prize Alan Castree- Mathilde Blind (1841-1896): Forever an Outsider
Poetry
Sarah Doyle The touch of gold: after ‘The Blind Girl’ by John Everett Millais
Dr Simon Cooke Review of The Presence and the Dream: A Decade of the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize
Art Competition
First Prize - Mary Magdalene by Mary McKenna
Second Prize - The Maiden Laments by Shuyan Chen
Third Prize - The Lady of Shalott by Elina Siddal
Highly Commended - Entre Sombras by Salvador Castio
Highly Commended - Self-Portrait: Aestheticism by Maud Taber-Thomas
Gallery Focus
Helen Robinson The Song School Murals, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh
Exhibition Reviews
Kirsty Stonell Walker Inspired! at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Simon Poë The De Morgan Museum at Cannon Hall
Hazel Riggal Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries
Book Reviews
Amelia Yeates The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones by Andrea Wolk Rager
Lisa Dallape Matson Evelyn and William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts & Crafts edited by Margaretta S. Frederick
Chimaine Ross How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Tim McGee Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics and the American Pre-Raphaelites by Sophie Lynford
Stephen Wildman Ford Madox Brown: The Manchester Murals and the Matter of History by Colin Trodd
John Holmes An Instinct to Draw: John Ruskin’s Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum by Stephen Wildman
First Prize Isabella McDonald - ‘This same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying’: Floral femininity and ideas of temporality in John William Waterhouse’s Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May paintings
Second Prize Larissa Jennings - Fashioning Medievalism: The Aesthetic Dress Movement’s use of medievalism to subvert late nineteenth century female gender roles
Third Prize Alan Castree- Mathilde Blind (1841-1896): Forever an Outsider
Poetry
Sarah Doyle The touch of gold: after ‘The Blind Girl’ by John Everett Millais
Dr Simon Cooke Review of The Presence and the Dream: A Decade of the Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize
Art Competition
First Prize - Mary Magdalene by Mary McKenna
Second Prize - The Maiden Laments by Shuyan Chen
Third Prize - The Lady of Shalott by Elina Siddal
Highly Commended - Entre Sombras by Salvador Castio
Highly Commended - Self-Portrait: Aestheticism by Maud Taber-Thomas
Gallery Focus
Helen Robinson The Song School Murals, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh
Exhibition Reviews
Kirsty Stonell Walker Inspired! at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Simon Poë The De Morgan Museum at Cannon Hall
Hazel Riggal Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries
Book Reviews
Amelia Yeates The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones by Andrea Wolk Rager
Lisa Dallape Matson Evelyn and William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts & Crafts edited by Margaretta S. Frederick
Chimaine Ross How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Tim McGee Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics and the American Pre-Raphaelites by Sophie Lynford
Stephen Wildman Ford Madox Brown: The Manchester Murals and the Matter of History by Colin Trodd
John Holmes An Instinct to Draw: John Ruskin’s Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum by Stephen Wildman
Volume XXX, Number 3, Autumn 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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