Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Tuesday 2nd March at 6.00 for 6.30 – 8.30 pm, Courtyard
£8 (£6 concessions) including a glass of wine.
 
Angela Thirlwell will bring to life the four women in the life of the great Victorian artist, Ford Madox Brown, known as 'King of the Pre-Raphaelites'. Some of his most stunning pictures, including one version of The Last of England, are held in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL through Dawn Coleman. Tel: 01223 703520
email: dawn.coleman@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
For further information contact: Helen Taylor, County Literature Development Officer: Tel: 01223 718135 or email helen.m.taylor@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Victorian Bohemianism: Ford Madox Brown and Four Women
Words by the Water, A Cumbrian Literature Festival
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick: Wednesday 10 March at 2.30 pm

Four women dominated the love life of the artist Ford Madox Brown. All four were remarkable, bursting out of the received stereotypes of Victorian women, on their journey towards emancipation. Angela Thirlwell will uncover their individual stories and their relationships with one of the greatest artists in the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

Book online at www.theatrebythelake.com or phone 017687 74411 and see www.wordsbythewater.org.uk

Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown
Burgh House – Hampstead Museum: Friday 19 March at 2.15 pm.

Many of Ford Madox Brown’s most famous pictures were conceived, begun or painted in Hampstead, such as Work, The Last of England, and An English Autumn Afternoon. Angela Thirlwell will give illustrated readings from her unusual biography of the artist which focuses on the four women in his life, his two wives, and his two secret loves.

Burgh House, 1 New End Square, London, NW3 1LP. Tel: 020 7431 0144

Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown
The Oxford Literary Festival: Tuesday 23 March at 4.00 pm at Christchurch

This unusual biography uncovers the private life of one of the greatest artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Angela Thirlwell will discuss whether five people are rather a crowd in one biography.

www.sundaytimes-oxfordliteraryfestival.co.uk & Box office: 0870 343 1001

Angela Thirlwell will present illustrated readings from her new biography Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown. She will bring to life four women, Elisabeth Bromley, Emma Hill, Marie Spartali and Mathilde Blind, and illuminate some of Ford Madox Brown’s most famous and least-known pictures.

Tickets £2 at the door, or reserve with Frances Buchanan: 0121 449 9078

Into the Frame: The Private Life of Ford's Grandfather
Ford Madox Ford Society at King’s College, The Strand, London, WC2R 2LS: Saturday 17 April at 2.00 pm.

Ford Madox Brown: Hands-On Biography
Is writing the life of an artist fundamentally different from writing about poets or politicians, kings or composers? Trawling archives, scouring letters, diaries and laundry lists, the biographer of an artist has one crucial extra resource – the pictures themselves. Ford Madox Brown, sometimes known as King of the Pre-Raphaelites, was one of the most brilliant members of that glamorous circle although he never officially joined. Exploring his pictures in the light of key relationships in his life, with his two wives, Elisabeth and Emma, and his two secret loves, Marie and Mathilde, will unlock his intense, inner life.

The Art Fund at The Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London, W1U 3BN
Tel: 0207 563 9500: Thursday 13 May at 2.30 pm

Dancing Into Freedom: Tarantella and Mathilde Blind's Radical-Romantic Legacy
Institute of English Studies, University of London, International Conference on Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle
28-29 June 2010.