{"product_id":"edward-burne-jones-9780007588220","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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fourth Estate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50408362934546,"sku":"9780007588220","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/edward-burne-jones-9780007588220","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}