Laure Nermel completed a BA in English literature at the Sorbonne before going to Cape Town for a study exchange programme as a French tutor. Her Master’s thesis focussed on the links between Victorian art and literature. She completed her education in Museum Studies at the University of Westminster, by participating in several projects at the Musée d’Orsay, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate and the Museum of London. She is now a licensed tour guide for small groups of visitors in Parisian museums and monuments. Her PhD at Lille University is on the creative agency of painter-poet Elizabeth Siddal. In 2021, she contributed to the writing of the book Pre-Raphaelite Sisters (Peter Lang) and to a special issue of the newspaper Le Monde. She has also published in The Conversation and in The Pre-Raphaelite Society Review. Research interests include: the long 19th century, artistic networks, gender identities, drawing techniques, museum displays, landscape gardens, mythology.
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