[d]aughter of a West Country brass-founder, she married Edward Crabb in 1855 (she assumed the final E at a later date); her stage name, Miss Herbert, by which she was more generally known, has been retained throughout. Her Christian names were divided between the stage and the artist's studio; in the playbills of the period she invariably appears as Louisa Herbert, while Ruth was the name commonly used by Rossetti” (Surtees,
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Double Work of Art
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