Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prizewinning author of Offshore and The Blue Flower, turns her attention to the remarkable life of the PreRaphaelite artist Edward BurneJones. I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any light that ever shone in a land no one can define or remember, only desire Edward BurneJones Edward BurneJones (18331898) was the prototypical preRaphaelite but with a truly individual sensibility. Penelope Fitzgeralds delightful biography charts his life from humble beginnings in Birmingham as the son of an unsuccessful framer, through a transformative period at Oxford, where he met his close friend and collaborator William Morris, and on to the apprenticeship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti that would shape his artistic vision. His work harks back to an Arthurian England an Arcadia that offered solace against the onset of the Industrial Revolution, and on a deeply personal level provided respite from his everpresent melancholia. This is an illuminating portrait of a fascinating figure artistic genius, doting father, troubled husband written with all Penelope Fitzgeralds characteristic sympathy and insight.

Binding: Paperback;346 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 427.54 g; Dimensions: N/A

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