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• Anne Carson's (b. 1950) author bio is succint:  "Anne Carson lives in Canada."  Its brevity was the subject of a very funny discussion in a 2004 post on Rake's Progress.

• John Ruskin (1819-1900) and Rose La Touche (1848-1875) shared a "morbid love."

• Elizabeth "Lizzie" Siddall (1829-1862) was a muse for many Pre-Raphaelite painters, particularly the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882), who later became her husband.  She was an observant muse and, in time, took up drawing and painting.  Reportedly, her interest in poetry was inspired when, as a child, she came across a Tennyson poem in "on a scrap of newspaper that had been used to wrap a pat of butter."  She died at 32 of a laudanum overdose.