Edward Burne-Jones, Green Summer (1864). Wikimedia Commons.

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... Fitzgerald's analyses of Burne-Jones's paintings move inwards, from their visible form to their inner meaning. A good example of this is her account of his Green Summer (1864): an early, spectral painting of seven young women in green dresses encircled on a lawn, listening to an eighth, who reads to them ( Figure 1). The models for the women were Georgiana, then aged 23, her younger sister Louisa, and Jane Morris. ...