The Pre-Raphaelite Reading List 📚

A comprehensive and expanding list of books on Pre-Raphaelite literature and art

Saint Barbara by Marie Spartali Stillman, 1865. High Museum of Art

“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

As new books are published and as I continue to uncover literary gems, I will update this list of Pre-Raphaelite related texts that are available to purchase on Amazon and AbeBooks. Through the Amazon and AbeBooks Affiliate Program, any eligible purchases you make through Amazon links on this post will help me earn a commission at no extra cost to you and is greatly appreciated in furthering the growth of The Pre-Raphaelite Pleasaunce. Pour a yourself a cup of coffee or tea—this is a long list! 𓇗

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The Pre-Raphaelite Movement

Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement by Martin Ellis & Timothy Barringer

The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn

Reading the Pre-Raphaelites by Tim Barringer

The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle by Cecil Y. Lang 

Pre-Raphaelites by Heather Birchall

The Illustrated Letters and Diaries of the Pre-Raphaelites by Jan Marsh

The Boyce Papers: The Letters and Diaries of Joanna Boyce, Henry Wells and George Price Boyce by Sue Bradbury

Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture: Nature and Imagination in British Sculpture, 1848-1914 by Benedict Read and Joanna Barnes

Thomas Woolner, R. A., Sculptor and Poet: His Life in Letters 

Treasures of the DIA: Detroit Institute of Arts by   Graham William John Beal  and Debra N. Mancoff

Pre-Raphaelite Treasures at National Museums Liverpool by Laura MacCulloch

Pre-Raphaelite Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum by Suzanne Fagence Cooper

Medieval Moderns: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by  Laurie Benson

The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination, 1848-1900 by John Dixon Hunt

Artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Circle: The First Generation by Mary Bennett

English Pre-Raphaelitism and Its Reception in America in the Nineteenth Century by Susan P. Casteras

The Pre-Raphaelites by Sandra Forty 

Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism: Papers 1854 to 1862 by William Michael Rossetti

Victorian Narrative Painting by Julia Thomas

Writing the Pre-Raphaelites: Text, Context, Subtext by Tim Barringer

James Collinson: aka The Dormouse by  Helen D. Newman

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by Edward Lucie-Smith, James Cahill, Marina Vaizey, Nicholas James

Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde by Tim Barringer and Jason Rosenfeld

The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters, Their Associates and Successors by Percy H. Bate

St Cecilia’s Halo: Music, Sex & Death in Victorian Painting by Suzanne Fagence Cooper 

From the Deep Waters by Toshiyuki Takamiya

The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin by Dinah Roe

Pre-Raphaelite Drawing by Colin Cruise

The Pre-Raphaelite Circle by Jan Marsh

Victorian Artists by Quentin Bell

The Remarkable Lushington Family: Reformers, Pre-Raphaelites, Positivists, and the Bloomsbury Group by David Taylor

I Giardini delle Regine: Of Queen’s Gardens: The Myth of Florence in the Pre-Raphaelite Milieu and in American Culture (19th – 20th Centuries) by Ciacci, Margherita and Grazia Gobbi Sica

George Field and his Circle: From Romanticism to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by John Gage

Pre-Rafaelite, Symbolist, Visionary by Peter Nahum, Sally Burgess and William Waters

Pre-Raphaelites in the Spirit World: The Séance Diary of William Michael Rossetti 

Pre-Raphaelites and the Book by  Diane Waggoner and National Gallery of Art

The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft English Pre-Raphaelite Collection by Delaware Art Museum

The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy by Colin Harrison and Christopher Newall

Andrea Mantegna and the Italian Pre-Raphaelite Engravers by Arthur Mayger

James Smetham: Artist, Author, Pre-Raphaelite Associate by Susan P. Casteras

Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities: Constructions of Masculinity in Art and Literature by Amelia Yeates by Serena Trowbridge

Beauty’s Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and Their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection by Dennis T. Lanigan and Christopher Newall 

The Pre-Raphaelite Papers by Tate Gallery

The Lost Pre-Raphaelite – George Wilson: His Life, Work and Associates by Robin J.H. Fanshawe

The Lost Pre-Raphaelite: The Secret Life and Loves of Robert Bateman by Nigel Daly

The Life And Work Of Sir William B. Richmond by Helen Lascelles 

Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites by Frank Moyle

Objects of Desire: Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago by Judith A. Barter, Ghenete Zelleke, Debra N. Mancoff, Douglas R. Nickel

The Legend of King Arthur: Pilgrimage, Place and the Pre-Raphaelites by Alison Smith, Jo Banham, Sarah Crown, Jim Cheshire, Jacky Nowakowski

The Arthurian Revival in Victorian Art by Debra N. Mancoff

The Return of King Arthur: The Legend Through Victorian Eyes by Debra N. Mancoff

Pre-Raphaelite Paintings from Manchester City Art Galleries by Julian Treuherz

A Dream of the Past: Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Movement Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings from the Lanigan Collection by University of Toronto Art Centre

Beyond the Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy by  Anne Anderson

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours by Christiana Payne and Fiona Mann

Fine Victorian Pictures (25 Oct 1991) by Christie’s

The Royal Academy Revisited (1837-1901): Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection

Writing the Pre-Raphaelites: Text, Context, Subtext by Michaela Giebelhausen and Tim Barringer

Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites by Alison Smith, Susan Foister and Anna Koopstra

The Pre-Raphaelites by Aurélie Petiot

The Dreaming Damozel by Mollie Hardwick

The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Watts: Symbolism in Britain, 1860-1910 by Andrew Wilton, Dr Barbara Bryant, Christopher Newall, et. al.

Henry Wallis (1830-1916): From Pre-Raphaelite Painter to Collector/Connoisseur by   Dennis T. Lanigan and Ronald Lessens

Pre-Raphaelites in Love by Gay Daly

Pre-Raphaelite Art in Its European Context by Susan P. Casteras and Alicia Craig Faxon

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Realism & Symbolism by Zara Ellis

The Pre-Raphaelites by Leslie Parris

Meet the Artist: The Pre-Raphaelites: An Art Activity Book by Helena Perez Garcia

Examples of the English Pre-Raphaelite School of Painters, Including Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Madox-Brown and Others: Together With a Collection of the Works of William Blake by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques by Joyce H. Townsend, Jacqueline Ridge, Stephen Hackney 

The Pre-Raphaelites by Tate Gallery and E.O. Parrott

Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection

Dictionary of Victorian Painters by Christopher Wood

Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity by Dianne Sachko Macleod 

The Pre-Raphaelites: Their Lives and Works in 500 Images

Pre-Raphaelite Dream by William Gaunt

Pre-Raphaelite Twilight: The Story Of Charles Augustus Howell 

The Pre-Raphaelite Dream: Drawings and Painting from the Tate Collection by Robert Upstone

Pre-Raphaelites and Their World by Rachel Barnes

The Dream Weavers: Short Stories by the Nineteenth Century Pre-Raphaelite Poet-Painters by John Weeks

The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn

Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain by Tim Barringer

The Pre-Raphaelites (Colour Library) by Andrea Rose

Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley

Pre-Raphaelite Cats by Susan Herbert

Pocket Cathedrals: Pre-Raphaelite Book Illustration by Susan P. Casteras 

Saints and Symbols, Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass: Ford Madox Brown, William De Morgan, John George Sowerby, Walter Crane, Frederic Shields by William Waters

Angels & Icons Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850-1870 by William Waters 

Pre-Raphaelite Art and Design by Raymond Watkinson

A Pre-Raphaelite Circle by Raleigh Trevelyan

Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War by Elizabeth Prettejohn

The Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators by Gregory R. Suriano

Pre-Raphaelitism: A Bibliocritical Study by William Fredeman

Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty and Rebellion by Christopher Newall

Victorian Illustration: The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School and the High Victorians by Paul Goldman

Painting the Bible: Representation and Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain by Michaela Giebelhausen

Byam Shaw (1872-1919)by Ashmolean Museum Publications

The Golden Dream: A Biography of Thomas Cooper Gotch by Pamela Lomax 

Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design by Alison Smith, Tim Barringer, et al.

The Pre-Raphaelite Body: Fear and Desire in Painting, Poetry, and Criticism by J. B. Bullen

Pre-Raphaelites Exhibition From Manchester City Art Galleries and Other Collections  by   Joichiro Kawamura and Christopher Newall

Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite Engravings Specialising in the Work of Felix Jasinski by Christopher Newall

The Pre-Raphaelites in Context by Malcolm Warner 

Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism by Thomas J. Tobin

Late Victorian Orientalism: Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge by Eleonora Sasso

Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite by David B. Elliot

The Victorian Romantics 1850-70: The Early Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Burne-Jones, Swinburne, Simeon Solomon and their Associates by T. Earle Welby

Pre-Raphaelites by Solfrid Soderlind 

Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle by Fogg Museum of Art

After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England by Elizabeth Prettejohn

Frederick Sandys: A Catalogue Raisonne (1829-1904) by Betty Elzea

A Consideration of the Art of Frederick Sandys; Being the Special Winter Number of “the Artist by Archibald Constable & Co. London

Exhibition of Works by the Late George Frederick Watts, R. A. O. M., And the Late Frederick Sandys

Unfaded Pageant: Edwin Austin Abbey’s Shakespearean Subjects by Lucy Oakley

Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture: Representing Body Politics in the Nineteenth Century by Kimberly Rhodes

Magdalen Wynyard; or, The Provocations of a Pre-Raphaelite, by Averil Beaumont by Margaret Hunt

Fifty Years of English Song: Selections from the Poets of the Reign of Victoria; The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Ballad and Song Writers, the Religious Poets by Henry Fitz Randolph

Love & Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate by Carol Jacobi, Bronwyn Campbell, Lucina A. Ward, Gerard Vaughan 

The P.R.B. Journal: William Michael Rossetti’s Diary of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1849-1853, Together with the Other Pre-Raphaelite Documents by William E. Fredeman 

Oliver Madox Brown: A Biographical Sketch, 1855-1874 by John Henry Ingram

Pre-Raphaelite Novelist Manque: Oliver Maddox Brown by William E. Fredeman 

The Last Pre-Raphaelite: A Record of the Life and Writings of Ford Madox Ford by Douglas Goldring

Joanna, George, and Henry: A Pre-Raphaelite Tale of Art, Love and Friendship by Sue Bradbury

Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn

Solomon: A Family of Painters

The Vision of Simeon Solomon by Simon Reynolds

The Art of Lord Leighton by Christopher Newall

Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity (Studies in British Art) by Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn

Leighton and His Sculptural Legacy: British sculpture 1875-1930 by Benedict Read

Frederic, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist by Richard Ormond and Stephen Jones

Pre-Raphaelite Paintings from Manchester City Art Gallery by Julian Treuherz 

Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott: And Notices of His Artistic and Poetic Circle of Friends, 1830 to 1882

William Bell Scott’s Screen: A Pre-Raphaelite Romance by Emily Learmont

William De Morgan: Pre-Raphaelite Ceramics by William Gaunt

The Designs of William de Morgan by  Martin Greenwood 

Arts and Crafts Tiles: William de Morgan by Rob Higgins and Will Farmer

William De Morgan and His Wife by A. M. W. Stirling 

Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites: The Anglo-American Enchantment by Margaretta Frederick Watson

The British Museum: Pre-Raphaelites by Bethan Stevens

La Bella Mano : Pre-Raphaelite Printings and Decorative Arts by The Virginia Museum, From the Samuel and Mary Bancroft Collection

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings in the British Museum by J. A. Gere

The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries by Sophia Andres

Victorian High Renaissance: George Frederic Watts, 1817-1904, Frederic Leighton, 1830-96, Albert Moore, 1841-93, Alfred Gilbert, 1854-1934 by Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Albert Moore: His Life and Works by Alfred Lys Baldry 

The English Dreamers: A Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Paintings by David Larkin

A Pre-Raphaelite Passion: The Private Collection of L. S. Lowry 

The Revolt of the Pre-Raphaelites : Catalog of Exhibition, 5 March – 9 April 1972, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Pre-Raphaelites at Home by Pamela Todd

Pre-Raphaelite Writing: An Anthology by Derek Stanford

The Pre-Raphaelites: Romance and Realism by Laurence Des Cars

Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts Jewellery by Geoffrey C. Munn

William and Lucy: the Other Rossettis by Angela Thirlwell

Pre-Raphaelite Painters by Robin Ironside and John Gere

Artists’ Jewellery: Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts by Charlotte Gere and Geoffrey C. Munn

Victorian Painting by Lionel Lambourne

The Victorians and Ancient Greece by Richard Jenkyns

The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement by Allen Staley

Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-1914 by Christina Bradstreet

The Pre-Raphaelites by Timothy Hilton

Oxford and the Pre-Raphaelites by Jon Whiteley

The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford by J. Alden

The Pre-Raphaelites by Christopher Wood

The Pre-Raphaelites by Herron Museum Of Art 

Victorian Visions: Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours from the National Museums & Galleries of Wales by Bethany McIntyre and Penny Kiser

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Russel Ash

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, A Critical Monograph by Ford Madox Ford

Memories of a Pre-Raphaelite Youth by  Ford Madox Ford 

The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt

Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Graphics by Martin Harrison

Victorian Painting by Christopher Wood

English 19th Century: Pre-Raphaelite and Academic: Drawings, Watercolours, Graphics, Paintings and Sculpture by Shepherd Gallery

The Owl and the Rossettis: Letters of Charles A. Howell and Dante Gabriel, Christina, and William Michael Rossetti by Clarence L. Cline 

The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina by Elisabeth Luther Cary 

Rossetti Papers 1862-1870

Pre-Raphaelite Circle: National Portrait Gallery Insights by Jan Marsh

The Pre-Raphaelites by Curtis G. Coley 

The Germ : A Pre-Raphaelite Little Magazine by Robert W. Hosmon

The Germ: Literary Magazine of the Pre-Raphaelites by Andrea Rose 

The Pre-Raphaelite Trail In Kent by Peter Wise

The Pre-Raphaelite Trail in Sussex by Peter Wise

Reading in Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature by Lynne Pearce

Pre-Raphaelites: Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings in Merseyside Collections by Frank Milner

A New and Noble School: The Pre-Raphaelites by Quentin Bell

Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum by Stephen Wildman

The Pre-Raphaelite Collections of the Delaware Art Museum by Rowland Elzea

The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England by Yale Center for British Art, Denver Art Museum, Laing Art Gallery, Susan P. Casteras, Colleen Denney 

William Dyce and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision by Caroline Babington

A Pre-Raphaelite Gazette: The Penkill Letters of Arthur Hughes to William Bell Scott and Alice Boyd 1886-97 by William E. Fredeman

Arthur Hughes: His Life and Work by Leonard Roberts 

Arthur Hughes 1832-1915: Pre-Raphaelite Painter [Exhibition Catalogue] by Leslie Cowan

The Book and Periodical Illustrations of Arthur Hughes: A Spark of Genius 1832-1915 by Maroussia Oakley 

Victorian Painting in Oils and Watercolours by Christopher Wood

Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters by Melissa E. Buron

The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle in the National Gallery of Victoria

Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle by Richard Ormond 

The Pre-Raphaelite Vision by Phaidon Press

Pre-Raphaelites and Olympians by Richard Beresford

The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print: Etching, Illustration, Reproductive Engraving, and Photography in England in and Around the 1860s

Victorian Photography, Painting and Poetry: The Enigma of Visibility in Ruskin, Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites by Lindsay Smith

Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters by Jan Marsh

The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood by Jan Marsh

Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images Of Femininity by Jan Marsh

A Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and Authors by Susan P. Casteras

Evelyn & William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts & Crafts, 2022

The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti by Azelina Flint

Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement by Zoë Thomas 

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain, 2022

Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel by Lucinda Hawksley

The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal by Jan Marsh

Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman by  Margaretta S. Frederick and Jan Marsh 

A Pre-Raphaelite Marriage: The Lives and Works of Marie Spartali Stillman & William James Stillman by David B. Elliot

Jane Morris: The Pre-Raphaelite Model by Debra N. Mancoff

Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth by Kirsty Stonell Walker

Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper

May Morris: Art & Life New Perspectives by Lynn Hulse

May Morris: Arts & Crafts Designer by Jenny Lister and Jan Marsh

In Praise of the Needlewoman: Embroiderers, Knitters, Lacemakers and Weavers in Art by Gail Carolyn Sirna and Shay Pendray

The Collected Letters of Jane Morris by Jan Marsh and Frank C. Sharp

Wives and Stunners: The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Muses by Henrietta Garnett

Lady Trevelyan and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by John Batchelor

A Pre-Raphaelite Journey: The Art of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (Liverpool University Press – National Museums Liverpool) by Pamela Gerrish Nunn

Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang: Fifty Makers, Shakers and Heartbreakers from the Victorian Era by Kirsty Stonell Walker

Women Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1870-1914 by Anthea Callen

The American Pre-Raphaelites

The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists by Linda S. Ferber, Nancy K. Anderson, et al.

Determined Realists: The American Pre-Raphaelites by Katurah Hutcheson

Fidelia Bridges, 1835-1923: American Pre-Raphaelite by The New Britain Museum of American Art

The Art That Is Life: The Art & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920 by Wendy Kaplan

Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites by Sophie Lynford

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Alicia Craig Faxon

Rossetti by David Rodgers

Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Maria Teresa Benedetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer by William Michael Rossetti

Life with Rossetti by Gale Pedrick

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Portraits of Women by Debra Mancoff

Dante Gabriel Rossetti by John Nicoll

Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Marina Henderson

Hand and Soul by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

Dante and His Circle with the Italian Poets Preceding Him by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Rossetti-Leyland letters: The Correspondence of an Artist and his Patron

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Letters To Fanny Cornforth by Paul Baum

Rossetti: Painter and Poet by J. B. Bullen

Recollections of Rossetti by Hall Caine 

The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by William E. Fredeman

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Jane Morris: Their Correspondence by John Bryson

Rossetti and His Circle by Max Beerbohm

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life by Henry Currie Marillier

Portrait of Beatrice: Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady by Fabio Camilletti 

Rossetti’s Portraits by Christopher Newall

A Rossetti Cabinet: A Portfolio of Drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Rossetti and His Circle by Elizabeth Prettejohn

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Double Work of Art by Maryan Wynn Ainsworth 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, His Friends and Enemies by Helen Rossetti Angeli

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement by Esher Wood

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost by Jerome McGann 

Rossetti and the Fair Lady by David Sonstroem

Dear Mr Rossetti: The Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Hall Caine 1878-1881 by Vivien Allen

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and a Study [ 1882 ] by William Sharp

Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Oswald Doughty

Collected Writings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Jan Marsh

Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Arthur Symons

The Life and Works of Dante Rossetti by Richard O’Neill 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Edwin Becker, Julian Treuherz, Liz Prettejohn

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Circle by Henry Treffry Dunn

Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography by Stanley Weintraub

The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) by Virginia Surtees

A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Oswald Doughty

Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith by Emma Mason

Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art by Susan Owens and Nicholas Tromans

Christina Rossetti’s Gothic by Serena Trowbridge 

Learning Not To Be First: The Life of Christina Rossetti by Kathleen Jones

Christina Rossetti, A Divided Life by Georgina Battiscombe

Christina Rossetti by Marnie Pomeroy

Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life by Jan Marsh

My Heart is Like a Singing Bird: Selected Bird Poems of Christina Rossetti by Christina Rossetti

The Complete Poems by Christina Rossetti 

Christina Rossetti: A Portrait With Background by Marya Zaturenska

Goblin Market: An Illustrated Poem by Christina Rossetti

Edward Burne-Jones

The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy

The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones by Andrea Wolk Rager

Burne-Jones: The Life and Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones by Christopher Wood

Edward Burne-Jones on Nature by Liana De Girolami Cheney

Sir Edward Burne Jones by Russell Ash

Burne-Jones by Debra N. Mancoff

The Life and Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones by Julia Cartwright

Burne-Jones: The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Century by Hillary Morgan

Burne-Jones: The Paintings, Graphic, and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1833-1898

A Burne-Jones Head and Other Sketches by Clara Sherwood Rollins

Edward Burne-Jones: The Hidden Humorist by John Christian

Portrait of a Muse: Frances Graham, Edward Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelite Dream by Andrew Gailey

Edward Burne-Jones: The Earthly Paradise by Christofer Conrad, Matthias Frehner and John Christian

Burne-Jones and His Followers by John Christian

Exhibition of the Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart. by Frederick Hollyer

Visionary and Dreamer. Two poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones by David Cecil

Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer by Stephen Wildman and John Christian

Sir Edward Burne-Jones: An Illustrated Record and Review by Malcom Bell

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings by Burne-Jones: 46 Illustrations by Dover Art Library

Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography by Penelope Fitzgerald

Angela Thirkell: A Writer’s Life by Anne Hall
*Angela Thirkell is the granddaughter of Georgiana and Edward Burne-Jones

The Perseus Series: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones by Anne Anderson

Magnificent Dreams: Burne-Jones and the Late Victorians by Frances Spalding

Burne-Jones by Martin Harrison and Bill Waters

Hidden Burne-Jones: Works on Paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery by Elisa Korb and John Christian

Damozels & Deities, Edward Burne-Jones, Henry Holiday & Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass by Alistair Carew-Cox and William Waters

Edward Burne-Jones: Stained Glass in Birmingham Churches

The Journal of Stained Glass, Volume XXXV, 2011: Burne-Jones Special Issue by Journal of the British Society of Master Glass Painters

Burne-Jones by J.E. Phythian

Edward Burne-Jones by Ann S. Dean

Burne-Jones by Martin and Bill Waters Harrison

Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones: 1868-1898 by Georgiana Burne-Jones

Barely Clare – The Little-Known Life of Clare Mackail by Tim McGee 
*Edward Burne-Jones’s granddaughter

Letters to Katie from Edward Burne-Jones

Holy Grail Tapestries: Designed by Edward Burne-Jones for Morris & Co. by Emmeline Leary

Morris, Burne-Jones and the Quest for the Holy Grail by Christine Poulson

Reproductive Engravings After Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones by Christopher Newall, John Christian and Julian Hartnoll

Burne-Jones – A Quest For Love: Works by Sir Edward Burne-Jones Bt. and Related Works by Contemporary Artists by Peter Nahum

Burne-Jones Talking: His Conversations 1895-1898 Preserved by his Studio Assistant Thomas Rooke by Mary Lago

Burne-Jones by Fortunée de Lisle

Burne-Jones by Otto Julius Wilhelm von Schleinitz

George Frederic Watts

The Laurel and the Thorn: A Study of G.F. Watts by Ronald Chapman 

George Frederic Watts. The Annals of an Artist’s Life by Mary S. Watts

The Winter Studio: An Account of George Frederic Watts’ Life and Work in Brighton by Martin Kenig

The Art of G.F. Watts by Nicholas Tromans 

The Drawings of G.F. Watts by Chloe Ward

Victorian Artists in Photographs: The World of G F Watts. Selections from The Rob Dickens Collection

G. F. Watts : Reminiscences by Emilie Isabel Wilson

Vision of G.F. Watts by Veronica Franklin Gould

G.K. Chesterton on G.F. Watts by G.K. Chesterton

G.F. Watts: The Hall of Fame: Portraits of his Famous Contemporaries by Leonee and Richard Ormond 

Representations of G.F. Watts: Art Making in Victorian Culture by Colin Trodd and Stephanie Brown 

G. F. Watts, The Hall of Fame: Portraits of his Famous Contemporaries by the National Portrait Gallery

G.F. Watts in Italy by Katerine Gaja

G. F. Watts, a nineteenth century phenomenon: [catalogue of an exhibition at] the Whitechapel Art Gallery

G. F. Watts: The Last Great Victorian by Veronica Franklin Gould

G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary by Mark Bills and Barbara Bryant 

The Life and Work of G.F. Watts by Julia Cartwright

G. F. Watts in Kensington: Little Holland House and Gallery by Barbara Bryant 

George Frederic Watts, 1817-1904: The Tate Gallery

An Artist’s Village: G.F. and Mary Watts in Compton by Mark Bills 

Painting the Cosmos: Landscapes by G.F Watts by Allen Staley and Hilary Underwood 

The Landscapes of George Frederick Watts by Walter Bayes

G.F. Watts Portraits: Fame & Beauty in Victorian Society by Barbara Bryant

G. F. Watts, Physical Energy, Sculpture & Site by Stephanie Brown

John Everett Millais 

Sir John Everett Millais by Russell Ash

John Everett Millais by Jason Rosenfeld

Millais by Jason Rosenfeld and Alison Smith

Time Present and Time Past: The Art of John Everett MIllais by Paul Barlow

The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais by John Guille Millais 

John Everett Millais: Beyond the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by  Debra Mancoff

Millais: A Sketch by M. H. Spielmann Preceded by the Artist’s Thoughts on Our Art of Today

William Holman Hunt

Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision by Katharine A. Lochnan and Carol Jacobi

William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonne by Judith Bronkhurst 

Pre-Raphaelitism and The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Volume 1 by William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt: Painter, Painting, Paint by Carol Jacobi 

My Grandfather, His Wives and Loves by Diana Holman-Hunt

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron: Arresting Beauty by Lisa Springer and Marta Weiss

Julia Margaret Cameron: A Critical Biography by Colin Ford

Light and Love: The Extraordinary Developments of Julia Margaret Cameron and Mary Hillier by Kirsty Stonell Walker

Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women by Sylvia Wolf, Debra N. Mancoff and Phyllis Rose

Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Fancy Subjects’: Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire by Jeffrey Rosen

The Pre-Raphaelite Lens by by  Diane Waggoner, Tim Barringer, Joanne Lukitsh, Jennifer L. Roberts, Britt Salvesen

Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism by Jennifer Green-Lewis

John William Waterhouse

J W Waterhouse by Anthony Hobson

J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite by Elizabeth Prettejohn

J. W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite. Royal Academy of Arts Brochure by Rachel Barnes

Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress by Judith Yarnall 

William Morris

A Claim to Beauty: William Morris, the Kelmscott Press, and the Quest for the Perfect Book by John Christian

Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860–1960 by Fiona MacCarthy

The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design by Diane Waggoner

William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy

William Morris at Middleton Cheney by Richard Wheeler

We Met Morris: Interviews with William Morris, 1885-96 by Tony Pinkney

William Morris by Linda Parry

Morris, Hammersmith and Utopia by Ruth Levitas

How We Might Live: Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper

The Art of Wallpaper: Morris & Co. in Context by Mary Schoeser 

William Morris in 50 Objects by Carien Kremer and Anna Mason 

William Morris’s Kelmscott: Landscape and History by Tom Hassall, Peter Salway, Alan Crossley

Useful Work Versus Useless Toil by William Morris

The Last Romances and the Kelmscott Press by Phillips Bennett

William Morris: Artist Craftsman Pioneer by Rosalind Ormiston & N. M. Wells

The Art of William Morris in Cross Stitch by Barbara Hammet

Arts & Crafts: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright by Arnold Schwartzman

The House of the Wolfings: A Book that Inspired J. R. R. Tolkien by  William Morris and Michael W. Perry 

William Morris Tiles by Richard and Hilary Myers

William Morris: Father of Modern Design and Pattern by Hiroshi Unno

Time and the Tapestry: A William Morris Adventure by John Plotz

William Morris & Red House: A Collaboration Between Architect and Owner by Jan Marsh

William Morris and his Palace of Art: Architecture, Interiors and Design at Red House by Tessa Wild 

Beautiful Useful Things: What William Morris Made by Beth Kephart 

Art and Its Producers, and the Arts & Crafts of Today: Two Addresses Delivered Before the National Association for the Advancement of Art by William Morris

William Morris by Anna Mason

William Morris, Ornamentation and Illustrations from the Kelmscott Chaucer

The Arts & Crafts Movement by Oscar Lovell Triggs

The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds by Mary Greensted

Textiles by William Morris and Morris & Co., 1861-1940 by Oliver Fairclough and Emmeline Leary

Icelandic Jaunt: Study of the Expeditions Made by William Morris to Iceland in 1871 and 1873 by John Purkis

Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland by Lavinia Greenlaw

The Stained Glass of William Morris and His Circle by Albert Charles Sewter

William Morris Stained Glass Pattern Book by Carolyn Relei, 1998

William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement: A Design Source Book by Linda Parry

William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Home by Pamela Todd

William Morris and Morris & Co. by Lucia van der Post and Linda Parry

William Morris in the Twenty-First Century by Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles

Highlights from the William Morris Society’s Collection

The Gardens of William Morris by Jill Duchess of Hamilton, Penny Hart, John Simmons 

Hopes & Fears for Art by William Morris

The Earthly Paradise: Arts and Crafts by William Morris and His Circle from Canadian Collections by  Katharine A. Lochnan, Douglas E. Schoenherr, Carole Silver

The Relations of Art to Labour by  Alan Bacon, Lionel C Young, William Morris Society

The Earthly Paradise of William Morris by Editor-Clare Gibson

William Morris and His Earthly Paradises by Roderick Marshall 

The Gateway to Romance: Tales Retold from “The Earthly Paradise” of William Morris by Emily Underdown

The Earthly Paradise: The Complete Edition by William Morris

The Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol. 2, 1885-1888 by Norman Kelvin

William Morris Textiles by Linda Parry

The Complete Pattern Directory: 1500 Designs from All Ages and Cultures by Elizabeth Wilhide

William Morris as Designer by Ray Watkinson

Great Masters of Decorative Art: Burne-Jones, Morris, and Crane

William Morris and the South Kensington Museum by Barbra Morris

William Morris in Appliqué by Michele Hill

Why William Morris Matters Today: Human Creativity and the Future World Environment by Paul Thompson

William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist by May Morris 

Dreaming London: Future City in Morris & Others by Peter Preston

News from Nowhere by William Morris

Words & Wisdom by  William Morris 

Telling the Tale of Topsy: William Morris’s Biographers: The 1993 Kelmscott Lecture

Morris & Co. by Christopher Menz

The Arthurian Handbook by  Norris J. Lacy, Geoffrey Ashe, Debra N. Mancoff

Morris & Company: Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement in South Australia by Christopher Menz

William Morris to Whistler Papers & Addresses on Art & Craft and the Commonweal by Walter Crane

William Morris’s Flowers by Rowan Bain 

The Flowers of William Morris by Derek W. Baker

William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings by Caroline Arscott

The Collected Works of William Morris: Volume 12. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs

Morris Embroideries, The Prototypes by A.R. Dufty

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain by Mary Greensted

The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds by Mary Greensted 

A History of Kelmscott House by Helen Elletson

The Books of William Morris Described with Some Account of His Doings in Literature and in the Allied Crafts by H. Buxton Forman

Willam Morris: Dreamer of Dreams by Jack Lindsay

The Pastoral Vision of William Morris: The Earthly Paradise by Blue Calhoun

The Golden Chain: Essays on William Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism by Carole G. Silver

William Morris and the Kelmscott Estate by A.R. Dufty

William Morris: Master-Printer by Frank Colebrook

A Victorian Rebel: The Life of William Morris by Lloyd Wendell Eshleman 

Warrior Bard: The Life of William Morris by Edward and Stephani Godwin

The Starlight Years. Love & War at Kelmscott Manor 1940-1948 by Joscelyn Godwin

The Arts Among the Handicrafts: the Arts and Crafts Movement in Victoria 1889-1929 

Our Country Right Or Wrong: A Critical Edition by William Morris

Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English: A Descriptive Bibliography by Robert L.M. Coupe

The Arts and Crafts Movement by Rosalind P Blakesley

The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris

Ford Maddox Brown

Ford Madox Brown: A Catalogue Raisonné by Mary Bennett

The Art of Ford Madox Brown by Kenneth Bendiner

Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite by Tessa Sidey

Ford Madox Brown: Drawings & Paintings by Raya Yotova

Ford Madox Brown: And the Pre-Raphaelite Circle by Teresa Newman and Ray Watkinson

Ford Madox Brown: The Manchester Murals and the Matter of History by Colin Trodd

Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer by Julian Treuherz

Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown by Angela Thirlwell

The Diary of Ford Madox Brown by Virginia Surtees

Chapters From Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist’s Granddaughter by Juliet M. Hueffer Soskice (Ford Madox Brown’s Granddaughter)

Walter Crane

Walter Crane: The Illustrators by Jenny Uglow

An Artist’s Reminiscences by Walter Crane

The Art & Illustration of Walter Crane by Jeff A. Menges

Walter Crane and the Rhetoric of Art by David E Gerard

John Ruskin

Unto This Last and Other Writings by John Ruskin and Clive Wilmer

Ruskin and His Contemporaries by Robert Hewison

Ruskin and Oxford: The Art Of Education by Robert Hewison

Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World by Andrew Hill

Stones of Venice by John Ruskin

Ruskin and Venice by Robert Hewison

Ruskin on Venice by Robert Hewison

William Morris and John Ruskin: A New Road on Which the World Should Travel by John Blewitt

Sunset over Herne Hill: John Ruskin and South London by Jon Newman and Laurence Marsh

John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye by Susan P. Casteras, Susan Phelps Gordon, Anthony Lacy Gully

John Ruskin: The Early Years 1819-1859 by Tim Hilton 

John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton

The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin

To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters by Suzanne Fagence Cooper 

The Ruskin Revival: 1969-2019 by Suzanne Fagence Cooper

Unto This Last  by Rebecca Lipkin 

Praeterita and Dilecta by John Ruskin

John Ruskin & William Morris: The Energies of Order and Love by David E. Gerard 

From Art to Politics. John Ruskin and William Morris by Lawrence Goldman

Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture by A. Heinrich, K. Newey, J. Richards

John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre by  K. Newey and J. Richards 

Ruskin’s Artists: Studies in the Victorian Visual Economy by Robert Hewison

Ruskin’s Artists by University of Lancaster Ruskin and Robert Hewison

The Poetry of Architecture by John Ruskin

A New and Noble School: Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites by Stephen Wildman and Robert Hewison

The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin

The Works of John Ruskin by Edward Tyas Cook

Art and Society: Ruskin in Sheffield 1876 by Robert Hewison

John Ruskin: Artist and Observer by Christopher Baker, Ian Jeffrey, Christopher Newall and Conal Shields

Nature’s Covenant: Figures of Landscape in Ruskin by C. Stephen Finley

Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin by  Tara Contractor,  Victoria Hepburn, Judith Stapleton, Courtney Skipton Long, Tim Barringer

The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place by John Dixon Hunt

Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud by Suzanne Fagence Cooper and Richard Johns

Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites by Robert Hewison, Ian Warrell, Stephen Wildman

On Art and Life by John Ruskin

John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye by Robert Hewison

The Lamp of Memory by John Ruskin

New Approaches to Ruskin (Routledge Revivals): Thirteen Essays by Robert Hewison

Go to Nature

The Pre-Raphaelites and Science by John Holmes

Temple of Science: The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History by John Holmes

Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature by Allen Staley and Christopher Newall

Pre-Raphaelite Landscape and Outdoor Painting by Allen Staley

Rural Scenes and National Representation: Britain, 1815-1850 by Elizabeth K. Helsinger

Nature’s Truth: Photography, Painting, and Science in Victorian Britain by Anne Helmreich

John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter by Christiana Payne

The Poetry of Truth: Alfred William Hunt and the Art of Landscape by Christopher Newall and Scott Wilcox

John Brett: A Pre-Raphaelite in Cornwall by Charles Brett

The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape by Allen Staley

George Price Boyce by Christopher Newall

The Diaries of George Price Boyce by Virginia Surtees

The Language of Flowers

The Pre-Raphaelite Language of Flowers by Debra N. Mancoff

Flora Symbolica: Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art by Debra N. Mancoff

A Victorian Flower Album by Henry Terry

The Complete Language of Flowers: A Definitive and Illustrated History by S. Theresa Dietz

Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers by Jessica Roux

The Garden in Art by Debra N. Mancoff

Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement by Judith B. Tankard

Pre-Raphaelite Poetry

Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: An Anthology by Paul Negri

The Pre-Raphaelites: An Anthology of Poetry by Dante Gabriel Rosetti and Others by Jerome H. Buckley

Poetry in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings: Transcending Boundaries by Sophia Andres and Brian Donnelly

Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) by Elizabeth K. Helsinger

Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics by  Heather Bozant Witcher by Amy Kahrmann Huseby

Sound the Deep Waters: Women’s Romantic Poetry in the Victorian Age by Pamela Norris

Poems and Ballads: First, Second and Third Series by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Pre-Raphaelite Poets by Harold Bloom

Pre-Raphaelite Poetry by Serena Trowbridge

Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris by Elizabeth K. Helsinger

Tennyson and his Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators by George Somes Layard

Love Is Enough : Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Poems

My Ladys Soul: The Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall by Serena Trowbridge

The Poems of Elizabeth Siddal in Context by Anne Woolley

The Poems of Evelyn Pickering De Morgan by Serena Trowbridge

The Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research by Jerome H. Buckley, William E. Fredeman, et al.

In the Queen’s Chamber: Pre-Raphaelite Christmas Poems by Mark DeBolt