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	Jane Burden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jane Burden (October 19, 1839 – January 1914) was the embodiment of the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty.
		In October 1857, Jane and her sister Elizabeth (known in the family as Bessie) were attending a performance in Oxford of the Drury Lane Theatre Company.
		Jane was noticed by the artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones who were part of a group of artists painting murals in the Oxford Union based on Arthurian tales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Burden (502 words)

	Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Portraits and Photographs of Jane Burden Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Jane Burden was the daughter of an Oxford stable worker.
		Rossetti's earliest drawings of Jane Burden, before her marriage, already display the characteristic features of his later images of her: the abundant, wavy hair, full lips, soulful expression and the inclination of the head and neck.
		Letters from Rossetti to Jane Morris indicate that she made the blue dress herself and was involved in the choice of the pose.
	liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /walker/exhibitions/rossetti/works/morris.asp (719 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jane Burden
		She became the wife of William Morris and the inspiration and mistress of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.She was born in Oxford on 19 October 1839, at which time her father Robert Burden was a stableman, living with her mother Ann Burden (formerly Maizey) at St Helen's Passages, St Peter in the East, Oxford.
		Jane Burden and William Morris settled at Kelmscott Manor, on the Oxfordshire - Wiltshire borders, where they both lived until they died: he in 1896, she in January 1914.
		The fullest modern account of Jane Burden Morris, from a large variety of written sources and lavishly illustrated, is Jane Morris: The Pre-Raphaelite Model of Beauty (2000) by Debra N. Mancoff.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Jane_Burden (432 words)

	Victorian Art in Britain
		The Ultimate Pre-Raphaelite Woman - Jane Burden was born in Oxford, the daughter of Robert Burden, a groom at a livery stable.
		Jane was not a conventional beauty, but was highly attractive in a rather unconventional way.
		Following the death of Elizabeth Rossetti in 1861, Rossetti's infatuation with Jane gradually grew, and in 1865 he had a series of photographs taken of her in the garden of his house in Cheyne Walk.
	www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk /muses/jane_morris.htm (776 words)

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		Jane herself refused to be subjected to the embarrassment of testifying and being cross-examined, properly maintaining that her reasons for wanting an abortion were highly personal and the court was acting unlawfully in seeking to examine those reasons.
		Moreover, Jane was only 18 years old, John claimed to have been her boyfriend for only three months, and his responsibility for the pregnancy was challenged.
		By the time of the court order, her abortion had been delayed at least five days and though abortion is safer than childbirth at all stages, each week of delay increases by 50 percent the physical risks to a woman's life and by 30 percent the risks to her health.
	www.textfiles.com /politics/abt_blck.txt (1268 words)

	May Morris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was the younger daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist and designer William Morris and Jane Burden Morris.
		May Morris was an influential embroideress and designer, although her contributions are often overshadowed by those of her father, a towering figure in the Arts and Crafts movement.
		She edited her father's collected works in 24 volumes for Longmans, Green and Company, published 1910 to 1915, and also commissioned two houses, as had her mother Jane, to be built in the style that he loved after his death, and which are still standing in the village of Kelmscott in the Cotswolds in England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/May_Morris (353 words)

	Pre-Raphaelite
		Jane Morris is the real-life muse that Rossetti, one of the founding fathers of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, painted over and over again.
		As Jane Burden, an impoverished 17-year-old, she took her place in the cheap seats blissfully unaware she was being watched by two strangers in the stalls.
		Jane feigned ill health, meaning she could be absolved from her duties as Mrs.
	www.early-sarah-brightman.com /Preraphaelite.htm (1875 words)

	`Jane Eyre' too respectable, stodgy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Jane, the burden of an aunt who doesn't love her, is packed off in the early 1830s to Lowood, a "charity school," in order "to be kept humble."
		Jane takes all that Lowood can dish out, including the death from institutional rigidity of her dearest friend, the consumptive Helen (Leanne Rowe).
		When the grown-up Jane (Charlotte Gainsbourg) leaves Lowood to accept a position as a governess, she is used to adversity.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/04/19/eyre.html (659 words)

	Jane Burden: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Jane Burden was the embodiment of the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty.
		Jane Burden and William Morris William Morris quick summary:
		The fullest modern account of Jane Burden Morris, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jane_burden.htm (330 words)

	Oblates of St. Francis de Sales - Spirituality Center
		Jane Frances Fremyot de Chantal was born of a prominent family at Dijon, France, on January 28, 1572.
		In the wake of her husband's death, Jane Frances and her children went to live with her father-in-law, a thoroughly unpleasant and difficult man who, among other things, kept a mistress.
		Even by today's standards, Jane de Chantal was a capable administrator in her own right as evidenced by the fact that over eighty Visitation communities had been established by the time of her death at Moulins on December 13, 1641.
	www.oblates.org /spirituality/jane (473 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Jane Burden: How a Pre-Raphaelite model changed our image of angels
		Jane Burden was the daughter of an ostler.
		The paintings of Rossetti's later years, when Jane and William had fallen apart, are palpable expressions of the artist's obsessive love for her: they are rather more about the model than the subject.
		Jane Burden look-alikes would of course be out of place in some companies of angels.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000614.php (1371 words)

	Excite España - Búsqueda Web - Resultados con: Jane Burden
		A brief article about Jane Burden and the members of the Pre-Raphaelite movement that she was associated with.
		William Morris (Jane Burden) Posed by Rossetti, 1865...
		Jane Burden (October 19 1839 - January 1914) was the embodiment of the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty.
	www.excite.es /search/web/results?q=Jane+Burden (195 words)

	Aaron Wells Family Association
		Edmond Collins Burden was born in Nicholas County, July 20, 1826, grandson of Charles Burden (17763-1836) and the son of James Burden (1793-1888) and Elizabeth Collins, who was a granddaughter of Mark Kenton, Jr., an older brother of Simon Kenton.
		Burden's excellent craftsmanship was always in demand and brought him recognition far beyond his own county.
		Charles Burden was born in 1763 in New Jersey and died in 1836 in Nicholas Co. His wife's name is unknown.
	frontierfolk.org /aw-jun01.htm (2726 words)

	On Love and Literature: The Portrayal of Women in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rosetti
		After her death from a laudanum overdose in 1862, it was then encapsulated by his mistress and wife of fellow artist William Morris, Jane Burden.
		Zeus ordains that she may return as long as she has not eaten any fruits in the underworld, but she is tricked into eating six pomegranate seeds, and therefore, must spend half the year in Hades with Pluto and the other half on earth with her mother.
		Jane depicts Proserpine holding the pomegranate, whose bright red flesh draws the eyes to her equally intense lips.
	www.sundress.net /wickedalice/Rosetti.html (1542 words)

	Jane Morris
		Jane Burden was born in 1839 Oxfordshire, daughter of a stablehand.
		Rossetti's brother William described her as "tragic, mystic, calm, beautiful and gracious-- a face for a sculptor and a face for a painter." She was immediately pronounced "a stunner" and modeled for Rossetti until he was called back to the ailing Lizzie Siddal.
		Warning:the notes on Jane are scanty because I've gleaned the tiny tidbits from so many different sources, mostly biographies of Morris and Rossetti, since there's nothing out there specifically about her that I've yet to find.
	www.walrus.com /~gibralto/acorn/germ/JBMorris.html (868 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Jane Burden was the daughter of an Oxford stable-hand.
		The portraits of Jane Morris which Rossetti commissioned in 1865 are among the best known examples of Pre-Raphaelite photography.
		Although it was J. Robert Parsons who actually took the photographs, Rossetti arranged Jane’s poses, some of which he used more or less directly in subsequent paintings.
	www.lbwf.gov.uk /wmg/photosd.htm (114 words)

	CD Baby: MOTHER JANE: This Time Tomorrow
		Beth Burden...founder of Mother Jane and queen of the sassy, soulful vocals (& hair).
		Mother Jane's four albums includes a wide range of tunes from stripped down acoustic to full band sound, with each album progressing in its songwriting, production & experience.
		While others may beg to differ, "Our first album makes a superb beverage coaster," while their 3rd album "Can't Complain" was aired on over 80 non-comm stations across the country and even edged its way on to the national FMQB Triple A Charts.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/motherjane3 (278 words)

	William Morris - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		His family was wealthy, and he went to Oxford (Exeter College), where he became influenced by John Ruskin and met his life-long friends and collaborators, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, and Philip Webb.
		He also met his wife, Jane Burden, a working-class woman whose pale skin and coppery hair were considered by Morris and his friends the epitome of beauty.
		Morris and Rossetti rented a country house, Kelmscott Manor near Lechlade, Gloucestershire, as a summer retreat, but it soon became a retreat for Rossetti and Jane Morris to have a long-lasting affair.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /w/wi/william_morris.html (822 words)

	Jane Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Jane Burden was the daughter of a stableman and working in service when Morris discovered her one summer in Oxford.
		Besotted, Morris took his very own damzel in distress and had her educated as a lady before marrying her, knowing that she could never return his love.
		But Dante Gabriel Rosetti fell for the lovely Jane Morris and she became Guinevere to his Lancelot.
	www.geocities.com /Wellesley/7371/jane_morris.html (75 words)

	Jon Hagee's Family History
		Robert Burden is a Sarah KENTON/Edmond COLLINS & a William KENTON/Jane BURDEN descendent.
		Cassandra Kenton is a William KENTON & Jane BURDEN descendent.
		Nikki Nickell is a William KENTON & Jane BURDEN descendent.
	frontierfolk.org /fam-gen.htm (1094 words)

	openaud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Or maybe you may want to think of Jane Burden, who also modeled for Rossetti and had a long affair with him, notwithstanding that she was the wife of his best friend and supporter William Morris.
		Amy Fitzmaurice is an elegant, graceful Elizabeth in direct contrast to Carmit Levitè’s great depiction of Fanny, the prostitute while Jennifer Seifert plays Jane Burden with a demure propriety that bristles with wantonness.
		Smith is every bit a gentleman of the period with Brian Graves and David Webb rounding out the Rossetti circle with their portrayals of Sir Coley Burne-Jones and Sir John Everett Millais.
	www.reviewplays.com /openaud.htm (430 words)

	The William Morris Internet Archive : Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Rossetti's cartoon of `Morris presenting Miss Burden with a Ring' could refer to this although the ring is being placed on her right hand.
		Jane later told Mackail that she had her first view of the sea on her honeymoon `at Dover on a grey April day'.
		In themorning, he told Jane, there was a rumpus: `May enjoying a good tease and Jenny expressing herself in boo hoo.' At this time Jane was in Torquay where she was staying with Mrs Morris Snr and her sister-in-law Henrietta.
	www.marxists.org.uk /archive/morris/works/chrono.htm (20909 words)

	Jane
		Jane Burden was born in 1839 Oxfordshire, daughter of a stable hand.
		Supposedly Jane's sister Bessie was prettier but it Jane who captured the hearts of two brilliant men, William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
		As a young girl, she sometimes modeled for Rossetti and can seen as the angelic young girls in the corner of La Ghirlandata, which Rossetti referred to as "the greenest painting in the world." Jenny was later diagnosed as epileptic.
	www.lollygag.com /playground/autumn97/jane.html (794 words)

	University of Michigan Special Collections Library - William Morris - Biography
		Jane's beauty appealed to Morris's aesthetic sensibility, while her working class background appealed to his belief in the ideal of a classless, egalitarian society.
		Most notable was the distress caused by Jane's affairs with Rossetti and the poet, adventurer, and wealthy radical, Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840-1922).
		This painting is a late example of one of Rossetti's many renderings of Jane in the moody, romantic, Pre-Raphaelite mode.
	www.lib.umich.edu /spec-coll/morris/bio.html (1014 words)

	Burden Lines
		James Burden, of English ancestry, was born about 1740 in New Jersey and died in 1806 in Nicholas County, Kentucky, where his insteresting will is on file.
		James Burden married secondly, Mary Brain of Virginia, who died in Nicholas County, Kentucky, in 1808.
		Sarah Ann Burden b.Feb. 29, 1840 in Butler Co. Ky.
	members.tripod.com /~Rruth/index-4.htmlBurden (792 words)

	Burden family of Wainuiomata, WTN, NZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Burden family of Wainuiomata, WTN, NZ Index Compiled by Dawn Chambers email: d.chambers@paradise.net.nz
		Descendants of: William BURDEN (1858-1909) And: Jane (Janey) PROUSE (1856-1883) Married: 1876 Children
		Descendants of: Maurice James BURDEN (1883-1961) And: Helena (Nellie) ATKINSON Married: 26 Oct 1904 Wesleyan Church, Wainuiomata, WTN, NZ Children
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /~dchamber/burden.htm (247 words)

	Young Family History
		Jane Burden was born in Ozark County, Missouri about 1847.
		Rhoda Jane Roark was born in Ozark County, Missouri November 1849.
		Jane died June 25, 1912 in Jack County, Texas, at 74 years of age.
	www.mcwhorter.net /norm/young.htm (13374 words)

	Pre-Raphaelite Women: Models, Lovers, Art-Sisters
		That may be Jane Morris' daughter May dancing in the background.
		The Stunners: Pre-Raphaelite Women--DG Rossetti's models (Christina Rossetti, Lizzie Siddal, Jane Morris, Fannie Comfort, etc.) and Pre-Raphaelite attitudes towards women.
		Pre-Raphaelite Women, Part A--DG Rossetti's attitudes towards his mistresses/models/wives; Arthurian Literature and Art--William Morris' attitude towards his wife/model Jane Burden Morris.
	faculty.pittstate.edu /~knichols/lizzie.html (1645 words)

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