The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than one hundred years previously with a stunning young artists' model whose face captivated a generation. Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by an astute young Pre-Raphaelite artist Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain & a pivotal figure of London's artistic world until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 1862. In the twenty-first century even those who do not know her name always recognise her face: she is Millais' doomed Ophelia & Rossetti's beatified Beatrice. Her image haunts the viewer & has become the globally recognised incarnation of Pre-Raphaelitism. This colourful & emotionally-charged biography takes Lizzie from the background of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's life & finally brings her to the forefront of her own.