Extended deadline! 🚨📢The PRS Review invites contributions for a special issue on Pre‑Raphaelite Networks: the artistic, social, transnational, and digital connections that shaped the movement and continue to inspire creators today.

Calling all art historian sleuths! My friend saw this painting at a hotel in Wales and can't figure out anything about it. The hotel doesn't know where it came from. Any ideas how we could identify it? The style is a bit bizarre to me; looks like c20 'does' Dutch golden age but I could be wrong.

Crumped in cotton, the Summer Issue of the PRS Review/PRSUS Newsletter is out now! With captivating essays, poems, art and reviews, discover Alessandro di Marco, May Cooksey and two plays by May Morris performed for the first time this Summer!

CFP: Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network Seminar Series 2026/27 (Deadline: 31 August 2026) buff.ly/MRNJ2B7

CFP: Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network Seminar Series 2026/27

The following post has been copied from The Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network. Please click here to see their original post. Our 2025/26 seminar series came to a triumphant conclusion on 17th…

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CFP: Pre-Raphaelite! Workshop – Tate Britain, 30 October 2026 (Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2026) buff.ly/mFNY34F

CFP: Pre-Raphaelite! Workshop – Tate Britain

Call for Papers: Pre-Raphaelite! Workshop Tate Britain, 30 October 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2026 Region: East of England Type: Conference Cost: Free We welcome students, early care…

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War in the world abroad a thousand leagues away, While custom’s wheel goes round & day devoureth day. Peace at home!—what peace, while the rich man's mill is strife, And the poor is the grist that he grindeth, and life devoureth life? William Morris, 'The Pilgrims of Hope'. Happy #MayDay, Oxford✊

‘Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale/Her infinite variety.’ - Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra 🖼️ T F Dicksee, Cleopatra (1876) Oil on Canvas, Private Collection. Wikimedia Commons 🖼️ Valentine Cameron Prinsep, The Death of Cleopatra (1870), Oil on Canvas. Wikimedia Commons #shakespeareday

Listen to Dr. Trowbridge’s inspiring lecture on Substack on the why the Pre-Raphaelites are relevant in 2026 and why that will continue to be true in the coming years. substack.com/@serenatrowb... @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social @serena-t.bsky.social

Why does Pre-Raphaelitism Matter Now?

Recording of my inaugural lecture, March 20th 2026

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I’m excited to share that my paper “Reimagining Mary Shelley through Pre-Raphaelite Eyes: Lucy Madox Brown’s Biography and the Labour of Literary Memory” is published in the Winter issue of PRS Review: “Working Wonders". @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social @zzaman.bsky.social

Cosy in cashmere, the Winter Issue of the PRS Review/PRSUS Newsletter is out now! Full of amazing essays, poems, art and reviews looking at how Pre-Raphaelites transformed ideas about work: work for women, work as pleasure and workers as heroes of modern society!

The best bit is how Rossetti is roughly the same size and shape as the wombat, emphasising the wombat's humanity and/or the artist's wombatity. A tale as old as wombats.

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156 years ago #onthisday, Top the wombat died. He was the pet of the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who, upon Top's passing, created this self-portrait in mourning. More on Rossetti and co’s curious but longstanding fixation with the #wombat here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o...

Contribute to the blog! Take a look at the JVC Online blog (jvc.oup.com) to get a feel for previous contributions and our style. You can find our contributor guidelines at: jvc.oup.com/contributor-... #victorianculture #victorianliterature

Are you looking to share your love of nineteenth-century art & poetry? Join the lovely folks @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social, a warm and bright community who have supported my work since the beginning!

Pre-Raphaelite Society@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thanks so much to @preraphsrule.bsky.social for giving our Founders Day Lecture on Christina Rossetti and Caring at the Birmingham and Midland Institute yesterday. Just after our annual AGM. Become a member of the society today to hear more about our other future lectures- link in our bio.

‘Looks so sizzling they could fry an egg!’ How the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation changed my life

‘Looks so sizzling they could fry an egg!’ How the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation changed my life

The 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic, starring Colin Firth, has its own fan group, has inspired university courses and was even featured in the Barbie movie. What’s behind its enduring appeal?

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Four decades. How I came to be featured in an eminent Art Journal. Read my full blog post on my story: salvadorcastio.com/beautiful-re... @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social @zzaman.bsky.social @alexxr97.bsky.social @suzannefagence.bsky.social @preraphaelicious.bsky.social @veryverso.bsky.social #art

It's been an Amazing week. After months of patiently waiting, I can finally reveal that I am the subject of a five-page article, In An Artist's Studio, in the new issue of the Pre-Raphaelite Society's PRS Review. My sincere thanks to @zzaman.bsky.social and @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social. #art

Cloaked in cascading bronze chiffon, the Summer Issue of the PRS Review/PRSUS Newsletter is out now! Crammed with essays that’ll whisk you away to 13thC Florence and marvels closer to home, astonishing art, poetry, architecture, book & exhibition reviews, opinion pieces and more! 💎

Thrilled to receive the summer edition of preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social PRS Review, and to see my new poem given such wonderful treatment. Being Poet-in-Residence to the PRS is an extraordinary honour. I'm sharing an obscured image here... no spoilers! 🧡🍂💛

My new series: Vision and Beauty. A 40-year journey with the Pre-Raphaelites in 3 parts. @zzaman.bsky.social @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social

Vision and Beauty: Part 1 – Salvador Castío

A Vision of Beauty: Discovering The Pre-Raphaelites I had no idea I was stepping onto a forty-year path when I bought my copy of the illustration monograph The Studio at sixteen. That oversized tome f...

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Happy 196th birthday to Elizabeth Siddal. Her poetry was never published in her lifetime. Our edition of it is in bookstores on the 29th but pre-ordering everywhere now and also at ElizabethSiddal.com

Hi I’m Dr. Serena Trowbridge and for my final social media takeover post today, I wanted to share about an exciting new role, and the first of its kind- Professor of Pre-Raphaelite Studies- and how inspired I am by the current diversity of research and scholars involved in the field.

Hi I’m Dr. Serena Trowbridge, Chair of the Pre-Raphaelite Society and I’m taking over our social media today. I’ve been asked to share a few of my favourite Pre-Raphaelite artworks and current research interests:

Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 William Morris lovers together in a single online location!

I'm giddy and overjoyed to have won 1st prize in the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize. It was a privilege to be included on a shortlist packed with incredible writers, and I hope I get to read all of those poems at some point. Sincere thanks to the judges, I'm feeling very grateful.

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And our fantastic winners 🎉🎉😎

It's about time we brought back tableaux vivants of Pre-Raphaelite art. And thigh tattoos. Probably not lemurs... fannycornforth.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-th... #tableauxvivants #preraphaelite #brightyoungthing #1920s

A Thruple, a Lemur and a Thigh Tattoo

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Brontë country to become protected national nature reserve. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brontë country to become protected national nature reserve

The 1,274-hectare Bradford Pennine Gateway links eight nature sites and includes landscape that inspired sisters

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A flourishing of foxgloves for Friday. ‘The foxglove bells, with lolling tongue, Will not reveal what peals were rung In Faery, in Faery, A thousand ages gone.’ Mary Webb Can you spot all the foxgloves in these three artworks?

New Lecture Alert! Saturday 17th May, Birmingham, UK. For more details and to buy tickets- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...

The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander 1837-1917. | Pre-Raphaelite Soc

In-person lecture on the Art and Life of Francesca Alexander given by Jacki Musacchio, author of the recently published book of the same title.

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Pre-Raphaelite Society@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social · last yr.

Despite being little known today, John Ruskin wrote that Francesca Alexander possessed “a quite heavenly gift of genius in a kind I had never before seen”. A new book to re-establish her reputation is being released and you are invited to the book launch. …

Got that Spring Glow? Swishing around in Silk, I’m delighted to announce this season’s PRS Review! We feature incredible essays, poems and reviews, exquisite art and 19thC stained-glass windows that will take your breath away!