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Jan Marsh is a biographer specialising in artists and writers. She has researched and written extensively on the Pre-Raphaelite circle, and also been guest curator for exhibitions. Currently she is working on the life story of Fiore de Henriquez see Art and Androgony and 'All Woman and Half a Man',a Guardian Feature, 4 August 2001.
Jan Marsh is Associate RLF Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London (English & Drama Department).
Forthcoming publications include scholarly essays on Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies (ed. Deborah Nord, Yale University Press), May Morris (in Decorative Excess and Women Artists 1885-1935, ed. Janice Helland and Bridget Elliott) and Marie Spartali Stillman (Women and Italy in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Alison Chapman and Jane Stabler, Manchester University Press).
Publications and Exhibitions
- Edward Thomas: A Poet for his Country, 1978.
- Against the Grain, Arts Council documentary film 1983.
- Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, London: Quartet Books 1985 and Tokyo: Heibon-sha Tokyo, 1997.
- Jane & May Morris, London: Pandora Press 1986 and Tokyo: Shobun-sha 1993.
- May Morris, Central Television documentary film, 1988.
- The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal, London: Quartet Books 1989.
- [with Trevor Lummis] The Woman's Domain: Women and the English Country House, London: Penguin Books, 1990.
- 'Concerning Love: News from Nowhere and Gender' [in] William Morris & News from Nowhere: A Vision for our Time, ed. Stephen Coleman and Paddy O'Sullivan, Green Books, 1990.
- Elizabeth Siddal: Pre-Raphaelite Artist, exhibition at Ruskin Gallery Sheffield 1991
- Looking for Lizzie, Kaleidoscope Special BBC R4, 1991
- Christina Rossetti : A Literary Biography, London: Random House 1994 and New York: Viking, 1995. see <www.amazon.co.uk>
- Christina Rossetti: Poems and Prose, London: Everyman Books, 1994.
- 'Art, Ambition, Sisterhood' [in] Women in the Victorian Art World, ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr, Manchester University Press, 1995.
- Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life & Art, London: Pavilion Books 1995
- Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists, co-curator of exhibition 1997-8 at Manchester City Art Gallery, Birmingham City Art Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery., March-July 1998. Co-author of accompanying book Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists, re-issued by Thames & Hudson 1999.
- Contributions to Dictionary of Women Artists, ed. Delia Gaze, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
- The Pre-Raphaelites, London: National Portrait Gallery Character Sketches, 1998
- [with Anne Harvey] Christina Rossetti in Poetry & Prose, London: Penguin Audiobook, 1998.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter & Poet, London: Orion, 1999.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Collected Writings, new edition, London: J. M. Dent, 1999.
- [article on] Queen Victoria and The Secret of England's Greatness, Guardian, 27 January 2001.
- 'Votes for Women and Chastity for Men', [in] Victorian Vision, ed. John Mackenzie, V&A Publications, 2001' see also http://www.fathom.com
- [article on] Josiah Henson ('Uncle Tom') at the 1851 Great Exhibition, Guardian, 24 April 2001.
- Entries for Dictionary of Artists' Models, ed. Jill Jiminez and Roda Morrison, Fitzroy Dearborn
- Entries for new Dictionary of National Biography: including May Morris, Rosalie Chichester, Jessie King, Kate Bunce