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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…

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I learnt about Burne-Jones' art and the other artists and writers around him including Rossetti, Morris, Ruskin. I enjoy Penelope Fitzgerald's novels and was intrigued to read a biography by her.

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