Dadd's

It is a painstakingly detailed work that depicts a crowd of little people, who played such an important role in Victorian fantasy, standing among the towering daisies and watching a scene whose import must forever remain locked in Dadd's imagination.

Dadd's Imagination 2010

As I described on the Book View Cafe blog, I had written the first two segments of the story before reading William Powell Frith's account of Dadd's onset of madness, and the long letter written to Frith by Dadd from the Levant.

October 2009 2009

This is me, written before I read Dadd's letters and Frith's book.

October 2009 2009

Study of the Victorian fairy painter, whose best-known work is probably The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (see also Dadd's explanation). (eBay)

This Week's Acquisitions 2008

Study of the Victorian fairy painter, whose best-known work is probably The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (see also Dadd's explanation). (eBay)

The Little Professor: 2008

"Dadd's giving me a long time," he whispered, seeing that I was awake;

Captains All and Others 1903

The light of the stars was sufficient to show that Dadd's face was very white, and that his dim, black eyes were wide open, and staring in a very strange and dreadful manner straight before him.

Captains All and Others 1903

Dadd's murder of his father obsessed Charles Dickens, who would lead friends to the spot where it happened.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

Critics often see the unfinished stroke of the axe as a reference to Dadd's own striking-down of his father.

The Guardian World News AS Byatt 2011

There are several portraits of Dadd's patron, Sir Thomas Phillips, a magistrate knighted for putting down a chartist protest.

The Guardian World News AS Byatt 2011