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Fanny Cornforth blue plaque

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Fanny Cornforth blue plaque
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This blue commemorative plaque records: Sarah Cox, later known as Fanny Cornforth. Model, Companion, Nurse and friend to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter was born here on 3rd January 1835 (date and place of death unknown). Sarah was the model featured in Rossetti's best known painting "The Blue Bower, 1865" Recorded plaque organisation: Steyning History Society.

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