‘Rosetti’s Stunners’ Historical storytelling by Elaine Britten
‘One face looks out from all his canvases — not as she is, but as she fills his dreams. In Victorian London, Dante Gabriel Rossetti transformed ordinary women into goddesses, calling them “Stunners.”
This new play — part theatre, part lecture, part riff beauty, gender and class — steps inside their gilded world.
Inspired by Woodford-born William Morris and his wife Jane Morris, a defining Pre-Raphaelite muse, writer-performer Elaine Britten blends local history with the story of these audacious Victorians. Meticulously researched and laced with humour, it uncovers the women behind the masterpieces.
