Before the modern supermodel, there was Lizzie Siddal, whose image
captivated a generation-and whose life ended in a laudanum-soaked
suicide. Saved from a working-class existence by Dante Rossetti, the
Pre-Raphaelite artist who was her lover, Siddal became recognizable
throughout Victorian Britain as Millais's doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's
beatified Beatrice. Lucinda Hawksley looks behind the celebrated muse to
reveal a talented woman in her own right.