Editing Thomas Woolner (section)

==Personal life==
On 6 September 1864 Woolner married Alice Gertrude Waugh. He had initially been in love with her sister, Fanny, and had previously proposed to her, but she turned him down. Fanny married Woolner's Pre-Raphaelite colleague [[William Holman Hunt]] the following year, but died in childbirth a year later. In 1874, while in Italy, Hunt married their third sister Edith, an act which Woolner considered immoral and which was defined as incest under [[Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907|British laws]] at the time. He never spoke to Hunt again.

Hunt's granddaughter [[Diana Holman-Hunt]] later claimed that before his marriage Woolner had been involved in a relationship with a lower-class girl called Amelia Henderson, who appealed to Hunt for support. Hunt arranged with [[Frederic George Stephens|Frederick Stephens]] to give her funds to emigrate to Australia so that she would not interfere with Woolner's wedding plans.<ref>Diana Holman-Hunt, ''My Grandfather, his Wives and Loves'', London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969, p.234.</ref>

Woolner and Alice had six children, four daughters and two sons. His eldest child, Amy, later wrote a biography of her father. His two sons Hugh (1866–1925) and Geoffrey (1867–1882) were sent to [[Marlborough College]], where Geoffrey died at the age of 14. Hugh was a survivor of the [[Titanic disaster]] and later became a stockbroker.