{"product_id":"9780007588237_edward-burne-jones","title":"Edward Burne-Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’, turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any light that ever shone – in a land no one can define or remember, only desire’ Edward Burne-Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was the prototypical pre-Raphaelite but with a truly individual sensibility. Penelope Fitzgerald’s delightful biography charts his life from humble beginnings in Birmingham as the son of an unsuccessful framer, through a transformative period at Oxford, where he met his close friend and collaborator William Morris, and on to the apprenticeship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti that would shape his artistic vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis work harks back to an Arthurian England – an Arcadia that offered solace against the onset of the Industrial Revolution, and on a deeply personal level provided respite from his ever-present melancholia. This is an illuminating portrait of a fascinating figure – artistic genius, doting father, troubled husband – written with all Penelope Fitzgerald’s characteristic sympathy and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penelope Fitzgerald, Introduction by Frances Spalding","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285441331349,"sku":"9780007588237","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007588237.jpg?v=1776992197","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007588237_edward-burne-jones","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}