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Lucy Faulkner and the 'ghastly grin': Re-working the title page illustration to Goblin Market

This article recovers the history of craftswoman Lucy Faulkner Orrinsmith. It is based upon doctoral research and was first presented as a conference paper at the Annual Women’s History Network Conference at Southampton in 2006. It examines the re-cutting of the wood-block for ‘Golden Head by Golden Head’ an image drawn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti for the title page of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market in 1865. Using previously unpublished source materials from the Macmillan Archive and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery it re-attributes this work to Lucy Faulkner. Highlighting other mis-attributed examples of Lucy Faulkner’s work (notably hand-painted ceramic tiles produced for Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co), it has been cited by Diane Waggoner in the catalogue for the recent exhibition held at the Tate Britain (12 September 2012 – 13 January 2013) ’Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde.’ The impact of this article has resulted in amendments to the collections/archives of the V&A and Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery; it is being added to the hypermedia Rossetti Archive by Professor Jerome McGann.