The Resume

(July 25, 1829-February 11, 1862)
Born in London, United Kingdom
Model, artist and poet
Model for the pre-Raphaelites, including John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poems include 'Dead Love,' 'A Year and a Day' and 'At Last'
Married Rossetti (1860-62)

Why she might be annoying:

She had wild mood swings.
She may have been anorexic.
She used her poor health to guilt trip Rossetti into eventually marrying her.
She abused laudanum (opium dissolved in alcohol).
She died of an overdose that was officially ruled accidental, but may have been suicide.
Rossetti allegedly found a suicide note and burned it to avoid a scandal.

Why she might not be annoying:

She developed an interest in poetry as a child after discovering a poem by Tennyson on a scrap of newspaper used to wrap a pat of butter.
She had striking red hair and blue-green eyes.
While posing in a bathtub as the drowned Ophelia for Millais, she developed pneumonia after the lamps heating the tub went out.
Critic John Ruskin found her art promising enough that he offered her £150 a year in exchange for all her drawings and paintings.
Because she came from a working class family, Rossetti kept her from meeting his relatives until after his father's death.
During their decade-long engagement, Rossetti had affairs with several other women (mostly models posing for his fellow painters).
A grief-stricken Rossetti placed the only manuscript of his poems in her coffin.
Seven years later, a less grief stricken Rossetti had her dug up so the poems could be retrieved and published.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 19th Century Painters
• 19th Century Poets
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 47]
• Eminent Victorians
• I Abused Opium
• I am Bloody Welsh
• I Died in My 30s (Ranked: 32)
• I Died in the City I Was Born In
• I Died of a Drug Overdose
• I Died While Pregnant or Giving Birth
• I Had Pneumonia
• I Have Eating Disorders [Bulimia/Anorexia]
• I Have Tuberculosis
• I Portrayed Ophelia
• I'm Buried at Highgate Cemetary in London
• I'm Depressed [Reportedly Manic/Bi-polar]
• Look at Me, I'm Wet
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• Look at My Flowers
• My Corpse was Exhumed
• Painters
• Poets
• Profiles 34251-34500 (Ranked: 34359)
• Redheads - Female [M-Z]

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 17 Votes: 5.88% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 115 Votes: 49.57% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 20 Votes: 65.00% Annoying