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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) is well known. But what is the story of the women behind them and on their canvasses?

There were many: Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth, Annie Miller, Fanny Waugh, Jane Morris, May Morris, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Maria Zambaco, Christina Rossetti, and Effie Gray to name just some. Many were talented artists in their own right.

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, superstar and bad boy of the PRB in equal measure, was linked with at least four of these ladies. John Ruskin’s young bride is known to have fallen under the spell of another of the PRB – pure scandal in Victorian society. Brenda Tate-Lovery, former Open University lecturer and Friend, will reveal to Friends some of the stories behind the names.

£10 Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, £15 non-members. Includes tea and coffee.

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Image: 'Jane Burden' (Jane Morris), a drawing by artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Credit: National Gallery of Ireland Collection.

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