{"product_id":"mariana-hardcover-journal-john-everett-millais-art-tennyson-poem-matte-notebook","title":"Mariana Journal — John Everett Millais 1851 Pre-Raphaelite Painting \u0026 Victorian Lily Stained Glass","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShe has been waiting since 1603. Shakespeare gave her the name — Mariana, abandoned at the moated grange, her dowry lost, her fiancé gone, her days measured in silence and longing. Tennyson gave her the voice, in his 1830 poem that made her melancholy famous across Victorian England: “She only said, ‘My life is dreary, \/ He cometh not,’ she said; \/ She said, ‘I am aweary, aweary, \/ I would that I were dead!’” And Millais gave her a face — in 1851, in oil on mahogany, with the vivid colors and meticulous naturalism of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at its most ambitious. The painting now hangs in Tate Britain. Mariana still waits.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe front cover features John Everett Millais’s 1851 Mariana — the Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece depicting Shakespeare’s abandoned heroine as reimagined by Tennyson, her blue dress luminous against the stained glass window of the moated grange, her posture caught between exhaustion and longing, painted with the vivid colors and intricate botanical detail that made the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood the most influential art movement of the Victorian era. The back cover features a Victorian stained glass window of white lilies on a vibrant red background, created around 1880 by Boreham and Brown of Bloomsbury for Leicester Secular Hall — the Madonna lily in full Victorian symbolic splendor, purity and spiritual meaning rendered in glass and light.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: 5.5 × 8.5 inches (14 × 21.6 cm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 150 lined perforated pages (75 sheets)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBinding: Casewrap sewn — lays flat, flexes for comfortable writing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCover: Matte laminated full-wrap, Millais 1851 Mariana (Tate Britain) \/ Victorian White Lily Stained Glass, Boreham \u0026amp; Brown 1880\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeight: 0.1 kg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePre-Raphaelite art lovers and Victorian aesthetics enthusiasts celebrating Millais, Tennyson, and the moated grange tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoetry lovers and literary romantics drawn to Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and Tennyson’s vision of Mariana’s melancholy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdmirers of Victorian stained glass and the Madonna lily symbolism of Boreham and Brown’s Leicester Secular Hall window\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArt historians and Tate Britain devotees who want to carry one of the collection’s most celebrated Pre-Raphaelite works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThoughtful gift seekers looking for a beautifully designed journal for romantics, poets, and lovers of Victorian art\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who finds beauty in solitude, longing, and the extraordinary visual world of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRead more: \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/new-old-time\/mariana-shakespeare-tennyson-millais-pre-raphaelite-victorian\"\u003eShe Only Said: Mariana from Shakespeare to Tennyson to Millais\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LeBonJournal","offers":[{"title":"Journal","offer_id":62840209539441,"sku":"29421042542224961410","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/5367\/0769\/files\/john-everett-millais-mariana-pre-raphaelite-artist-study-lifestyle.png?v=1770056300","url":"https:\/\/lebonjournal.com\/products\/mariana-hardcover-journal-john-everett-millais-art-tennyson-poem-matte-notebook","provider":"LeBonJournal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}