The brand new painting, Lady Lilith, from the Rossetti are an excellent portion on representation out of a great ‘dropped woman’, in this instance using the incarnation of your own femme fatale: ‘Engrossed inside her beauty, Lilith combs her lustrous, long, wonderful tresses. Legendarily the initial partner regarding Adam, their term is cold, however, their looks voluptuously appealing.’ The picture from Lady Audley represented regarding feelings book Lady Audley’s Magic, by the Mary Braddon, echoes it cooler and you can enchanting color: ‘No-one however, an excellent pre-Raphaelite would have decorated, tresses because of the tresses, those people feathery masses out-of ringlets [. ] my woman, inside the portrait regarding their unique, had the aspect of the gorgeous fiend.’