It was well known within their circle of friends that Lizzie and Gabriel referred to each other by the pet name of “Guggums”.  Ford Madox Brown wrote about this curious nickname and Rosseti’s obsessive drawing of his beloved  “Guggums”:

“Called on Dante Rossetti.  Saw Miss Siddal, looking thinner and more deathlike and more beautiful and more ragged than ever; a real artist, a woman without parallel for many a long year.  Gabriel as usual diffuse and inconsequent in his work.  Drawing wonderful and lovely Guggums one after another, each one a fresh charm, each one stamped with immortality, and his picture never advancing.”

It’s quoted from Bown’s diary, published as Diary of Ford Madox Brown (edited by Virginia Surtees, 1981).

       

     В кругах близких к Лиззи и Габриэлю было хорошо известно, что они обращались друг к другу, используя прозвище "гуггамз". Форд Мэрдок Браун писал об этих любопытных прозвищах и одержимости Габриэля в изображении своей любимой "Гуггамз": " Навестил Данте Россетти

 

      In another entry, Ford Madox Brown said that Rossetti showed him “a drawer full of ‘Guggums’, God knows how many, but not bad work, I should say, for the six years he had known her; it is like a monomania with him.  Many of them are matchless in beauty, however, and one day will be worth large sums.”

Here are a few of Rossetti’s “Guggums”: