Later, Morris and Rossetti rented Kelmscott Manor, an Elizabethan Manor in the village of Kelmscott at the South-West corner of Oxfordshire. Here Rossetti's love blossomed for Morris's wife Jane and the couple escaped the public gaze to wander alone in the summer water-meadows

Countless books and articles have been written about her; her image is universally known and has almost become part of popular culture, the face in the famous and romantic paintings adorning posters, greetings cards, pop album covers and T-shirts.
Yet very little is know of her life, her death is shrouded in mystery and she is perhaps best known for the macabre, now almost mythical story of the exhumation of her coffin from Highgate Cemetery. Her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, overcome by grief and guilt, placed in her coffin his manuscript poems, which she had loved. But six years later he decided he wanted to publish the poems and agreed to an exhumation. A canopy was set up over the grave, a bonfire lit to provide light, and the coffin was lifted. Rossetti did not attend the exhumation but five of his friends did, one of who later described how, when the coffin was opened, Lizzie's face was still as beautiful as ever and her famed red hair shone in the firelight.