thissorryspacesuit · @thissorryspacesuit
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The most common search that gets people to my site is:
"which #Victorian writer hated millais's Christ in the House of His Parents" (It must be a question on some junior college art history test.)
You can find out in this #essay, "How one bad review can really change your life-
#JohnEverettMillais, #CharlesDickens, and the #PreRaphaelite vision."
Read it here: https://www.nealvonflue.com/one-bad-review/
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Henry Holiday's Snark · @snark
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In one of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), Louise Schweitzer ("One Wild Flower", 2012, page 223) found this allusion to John Everett Millais' "Boyhood of Raleigh" (https://snrk.de/holidays-butcher-and-millais-raleigh/).
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Allusions #Pastiche #Millais #PreRaphaelite #JohnEverettMillais #Raleigh #WalterRaleigh
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