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Cornforth, Fanny, 1835-1909

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Personal name headingCornforth, Fanny, 1835-1909
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Variant(s)Cox, Sarah, 1835-1909
Hughes, Sarah, 1835-1909
Schott, Sarah, 1835-1909
Schott, Fanny, 1835-1909
Cornforth, Fanny, 1824-1906
Other standard no.Q450551
Associated countryEngland
Birth date1835-01-03
Death date1909-02-24
Place of birthSteyning (England)
Place of deathChichester (England)
Found inDante Gabriel Rossetti, in his back garden. Plate to: William Heinemann, Rossetti and his circle, 1922: note (Fanny Cornforth)
Victorian art in Britain website of Paul Ripley, 21 June 2004: (Fanny Cornforth; mistress and muse of Rossetti; b. 1824, Sussex; d. 1906)
Stunner : the fall and rise of Fanny Corntforth, 2022: p. 14 (Sarah Cox (Fanny Cornforth), b. 1835; d. 1909; m. Timothy Hughes/Cornforth, 1860; m. John Bernhard Schott, 1879) p. 20 (b. Steyning, Jan. 3, 1835) p. 201 (admitted to Graylingwell Asylum, outside Chichester, West Sussex, under the name Sarah Hughes, Mar. 30, 1907) p. 203 (d. Feb. 24, 1909; buried in Chichester cemetery, Mar. 1, 1909) p. 225, etc. (letters signed, Sarah or Fanny Schott)
Wikipedia, Apr. 19, 2023 (Fanny Cornforth, b. Sarah Cox; b. Steyning, Sussex, Jan. 3, 1835; d. West Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Feb. 24, 1909; English artist's model; mistress and muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; m. Timothy Hughes, 1860; around this time adopted the name Fanny Cornforth, Cornforth being her husband's step-father's surname; m. John Schott, Nov. 1879)
National Portrait Gallery WWW home page, Apr. 19, 2023 (Fanny Cornforth (née Sarah Cox) (1835-circa 1909; artist's model and intimate companion of Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
   <https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp123506/fanny-cornforth-nee-sarah-cox>