A self-image by Georgie appears in the cartoon-strip she created in 1859 as a Valentine for five-year-old Mabel Maclaren, promising a visit
And a newly-discovered drawing by Georgie from the same period [signed with the monogram 'GM' for Georgiana Macdonald, therefore before her wedding] illustrates Thomas Hood's then-famous poem 'The Bridge of Sighs', and is so identified on the back.
It is thus becoming possible to reconstruct the creative ambitions that emerged when Georgie joined the Pre-Raphaelite circle and studied with Madox Brown, until they were decisively quashed by motherhood and her husband's decision to keep Georgie out of his studio.
