In Rossetti’s Lady Lilith, a woman — stone-faced, golden-haired — stares into a delicate hand mirror. She is framed in red roses and poppies, nature meddling with her mane. I think of her often; pink ...

In the cultural ether of Victorian England, Lilith—an ancient Talmudic seductress and the mythical first wife of Adam—arose as a figure of renewed fascination in popular culture, and one who embodied ...