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020			_a9781848540507
040			_aKenya National Library Service _erda
082			_a709.4209034 MOY
100			_a Moyle, Franny _eauthor
245			_aDesperate Romantics : _bthe private lives of the Pre-Raphaelites / _cFranny Moyle
300			_axiii, 418 pages, [16] pages of plates : _b illustrations (some colour) ; _c20 cm.
504			_aIncludes index.
520			_aTheir Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England; they outraged their contemporaries with their loves, jealousies and betrayals, and they stunned society when their complex moral choices led to madness and suicide, or when their permissive experiments ended in addiction and death. The characters are huge and vivid and remain as compelling today as they were in their own time.
650			_aPre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
650			_aPre-Raphaelitism--England
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