![]() ![]() Art was the only thing for which she felt very seriously. ‘The truth is that no one so much as herself would have approved of my doing this. In 1869, notoriously, he arranged for the coffin to be exhumed and the poems retrieved with others they wre published the following year. On the morning of the funeral 17 February 1862, he placed in the open coffin the manuscript of poems he had been preparing for publication, which was then buried with Lizzie at Highgate. ![]() Rossetti did not like to leave her alone at home in the daytime She was suffering from severe post-natal depression following the stillbirth of her daughter the year before, and friends reported that she was in a highly disturbed state of mind. The inquest verdict was accidental death, but ever since rumours have persisted that she intended to die. Lizzie died in the early hours of 11 February, having taken an excessive dose of laudanum the night before when going to bed. ![]() If weather permits – ice and snow create hazardous access to off-path graves – the Cemetery tours throughout the day will visit the Rossetti tomb. The 150th anniversary of Elizabeth Siddal’s death on 11 February 1862 from an opiate overdose is being marked at her graveside in Highgate Cemetery tomorrow morning, with a display in the newly redecorated funeral chapel in splendid Puginesque style, and a lecture in the evening. If you have not had the pleasure of reading them, I highly recommend her books Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood and The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. ![]()
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