Brickdale\u27s Idylls re-viewed

This essay resituates Brickdale in her time, the Edwardian period, rather than the-by that time-rather passé era of the Pre-Raphaelites. Although indebted to the earlier artists, she is more accurately conceived of as, in Kyle Stoneman\u27s felicitous phrase, a \u27neo-Pre-Raphaelite.\u27 From this perspective, a close reading of her Arthurian images helps to clarify her difference and, perhaps, suggest a new assessment of her originality, although, in the absence of essential biographical sources, any attempt to define her program must remain extremely tentative. (DLH and DNM)