Edward Burne-jones

Penelope 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. 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 Edward Burne-jones (1833-1898) Was The Prototypical Pre-raphaelite But With A Truly Individual Sensibility. Penelope Fitzgeralds 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.