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Images cont’d: Study of Dante holding the Hand of Love, 1855-56, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Pencil on paper. Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust.

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Images: Watercolour for Printed Fabric Design, Honeysuckle, 1874, William Morris. Watercolour and ink over pencil on paper. Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust. Bag, embroidered silk, ca. 1878, British, Jane Morris, bequeathed by May Morris © V&A Museum.

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Submission details: 1500 – 3000 words + 100‑word bio • Deadline: 1st October 2026 Email to: editorpreraphreview@gmail.com We welcome postgraduates, early‑career researchers, independent scholars, museum professionals, and established academics.

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Themes include: * Global Pre‑Raphaelites * Transnational craft: art and craft as sites of cross‑cultural exchange. * Creative circles: friendships, studios, alliances, and societies. * Neo‑Victorian & digital networks: contemporary artists & writers reimagining Pre‑Raphaelite aesthetics online.

Emma Merkling @emmamerkling.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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.

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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.

Photo of a painting in a hotel. The painting shows a still life scene of a model ship, a book, some apples, a leaf. In the background is another ship (unclear if a framed painting, or a view through a window). Looks like oil painting, mannered style.

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Zaynub Zaman @zzaman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🖼️ Work, Ariadne in Naxos (1925),tempera. @BM_AG Fabric: Pima Cotton Lawn based on William Morris 'Anemone' design, late 19thC Become a member today at www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/pricing-plan... #summer #magazine #preraphaelite

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Zaynub Zaman @zzaman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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!

Magazine nestled in bright blue patterned fabric.

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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✊

Zaynub Zaman @zzaman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Dicksee’s Cleopatra is intensely regal, dramatic and wistful. Prinsep’s painting blends his early Pre‑Raphaelite influences and Parisian academic style. His work was praised for its rich colour, skill and classical treatment of the famous story. #art #shakespeare #victorian #preraphaelite

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Zaynub Zaman @zzaman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

‘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

Salvador Castío @salvadorcastio.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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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

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Why does Pre-Raphaelitism Matter Now?

Recording of my inaugural lecture, March 20th 2026

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Dilara Kalkan @dilarakalkan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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

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Want to read more about Ford Madox Brown and other Pre-Raphs? Become a member today at www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/memberships #art #Wednesday #winter #work #working #wonders #preraphaelite #painting #artist #oilpainting #paint #museum #artgallery #blueskyart

The painting challenges us to consider whose work we choose to value and who ultimately contributes to a healthy society - the worker, artists, intellectuals or those in the shadows?

Madox Brown transforms workers into modern heroes. Working classes are centred: light bathes a group of muscle bound manual labourers, a young girl cradles an orphaned baby in her arms. The baby looks out from the canvas to an uncertain future.

Featuring pioneering artist Emma Sandys, the Kashmiri connection to Pre-Raphaelite art, Bodichon, Sawyer, the Madox Browns, William Morris, John Atkinson Grimshaw and more! 🖼️ Work, Ford Madox Brown (1863), Oil on Canvas. @BM_AG

VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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!

Magazine cover showing working men and women engaging in construction and child rearing.

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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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Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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!

Salvador Castío @salvadorcastio.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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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

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Salvador Castío @salvadorcastio.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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

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Painting's subject dramatizes a sonnet by Dante, in which three medieval poets and their unrequited loves are harmoniously reconciled. Here the lovers effortlessly overcome the barriers that kept them separate. An impossible dream come to life.

Cover art 🖼️: D.G. Rossetti, The Boat of Love (1881) Oil on Canvas. © Birmingham Art Gallery. Fabric: Silk Chiffon, Circa 1980s.

Sarah Doyle @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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! 💎

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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! 🧡🍂💛

PRS Review. Front cover shows DG Rossetti's 1881 painting 'The Boat of Love': gold/grey colours, figures (including an angel) on a wooden ship.

On the lefthand page, the text of my poem 'Dismantling De Morgan', obscured by overlaid images of autumn leaves. On righthand page, my photograph of Evelyn De Morgan's painting 'The Hourglass': a seated female figure in flowing orange robes, her right hand reaching for an hourglass on an elaborately-carved low table.

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Kyle Cassidy @kylecassidy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

A person in dark clothing walks down a dim, graffiti-lined alley. The sky is overcast, creating a somber mood. Quote overlay about Elizabeth Siddal's poetry.

A cozy scene with a cup of coffee on a wooden table surrounded by poetry books, handwritten letters, twine, and a pen, evoking a vintage, thoughtful ambiance.

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Pre-Raphaelite Society @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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.

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Pre-Raphaelite Society @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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:

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Zaynub Zaman @zzaman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Oh has the world changed or have I changed?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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

William Morris giving you leaves and flowers like a boss!

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Sarah Doyle @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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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Pre-Raphaelite Society @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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?

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Zaynub Zaman @zzaman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Want to read more about De Morgan and other Pre-Raphs? Become a member today at www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/memberships

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Zaynub Zaman @zzaman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Painting’s subject is taken from the Gospel of John 1.5. Evelyn’s Christlike figure is a woman wearing a golden gown & radiating light, dispelling the darkness like a living flame. A source of goodness and hope, she stands as a reminder that even in the darkest times Hope cannot be extinguished.