English: (see Peter Nahum) In The Merciless Lady we see a young lover torn between two maidens: a pale titian-haired angel singing sweetly and a darker raven-haired beauty whose hand he tightly clasps. Here is Rossetti at his most intimately revealing. In love with Janey and haunted by the memory of Lizzie, and thus distracted, unable to give his all. Lizzie's glass is empty, as is almost Rossetti's but Janey's is full and yet to be tasted. Rossetti's stability came from Fanny Cornforth and his distraction from various models but the two great loves of his life were Lizzie Siddal and Janey Morris.
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