The Story of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

In 1847 a group of young men in London, poets and painters, formed the habit of meeting together for discussions on art. The English-Philistine public was roused suddenly from its ordinary apathy by hearing that there was in its midst a body of young men who had determined to revolutionize English painting and poetry. In England then as now, it was enough for a man to try and produce any serious beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen. And besides this, the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, among whom the names of Dante Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Malay, will be familiar to you. To know nothing about their great men is one of