Kirsty Stonell Walker

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• Sunday 8th December - Her First Place

  

  I hope everyone has a nice quiet Sunday and can re-hydrate from all the sobbing we've been doing so far this week. Talking of which...The First Place (1860)... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2019 CULTURE

• Saturday 7th December - The Death of Albine

  

  Well, we have staggered into the first weekend of Sobvent and that's one week done. Hopefully no-one has sobbed up their spleen yet because we still have a... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2019 CULTURE

• Friday 6th December - End of Her Journey

  

  When I left the house yesterday morning to go to work it was -1 degrees. This morning it was a fairly tropical 11 degrees which is absolutely ridiculous, and... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2019 CULTURE

• Thursday 5th December - His First Grief

  

  Well, fourteen years ago I was not having a very good time because I had been in labour for 18 hours by this point and would have about another 14 to go (but... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2019 CULTURE

• Wednesday 4th December - Poor Fauvette

  

  I am up far too early this morning but there is a lot going on right now and when I wake up, then that's it, I might as well get up and get on with the day. So... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2019 CULTURE

• Tuesday 3rd December - One for Sorrow

  

  Well, we are but a couple of days into Sobvent and already I am feeling miserable. I have a latent chest infection which has the faint promise of consumption... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2019 CULTURE

• Monday 2nd December

  

  Flipping heck, it is cold this morning! I was scraping the ice off the windscreen of the Walker-mobile shrieking as my fingers were ice-burned by the flying... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2019 CULTURE

• Sunday 1st December - Despair

  

  Hello, my lovely readers and welcome to this years Blogvent or as it shall be known this time round...Sobvent!I regret nothing. Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2019 CULTURE

• Pre-Raphaelite Women (with an Emphasis on the 'men')

  

  That sound, my gentle readers, is the repeated bang of my head against the desk. I should have seen it coming, yet I was still rather surprised when, at the... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2019 CULTURE

• National Poetry Day 2019: On a Portrait

  

  Happy National Poetry Day to you all. I am in the midst of book-writing and so I bring you a poem by Julia Margaret Cameron on the beauty of a portrait... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2019 CULTURE

• Shhh! Happens

  

  Today's post is about one of my favourite things. I have a hypersensitivity to sound and so I retreat into silence whenever I can. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2019 CULTURE

• Review: Charlotte Bronte's Devotee

  

  One of the funniest parts of the Harry Potter Studio Tour is when you see a video of the (then) very junior assistant at Warner Bros talk about taking home the... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2019 CULTURE

• Book News! Light and Love

  

  This is the sort of post I adore writing because it is to do with a forthcoming book. For a while now I have been working on my research on Mary Hillier, maid... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2019 CULTURE

• Flappers Travel Fast

  

  We'll begin today slightly earlier than normal, but then we finish up in the 1930s so it all balances out. Anyway, today's ramble-y post starts in 1773, and... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2019 CULTURE

• Dropping in on Tennyson (again) (properly This Time)

  

  Those of you who have read this blog for a while might be able to cast your minds back to 2014 (when we were all so young and beautiful) when I wrote a post on... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2019 CULTURE

• Looking for Mrs Donkin's Cook

  

  It is no secret that I love knowing the identities and lives of models. Often, the lives of the models surpasses that of the artist in terms of ups and downs,... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2019 CULTURE

• Review: Queen Victoria and the Men Who Loved Her

  

  As you might recall back in 2014, Robert Parry published a book of biographical sketches of Queen Elizabeth I (reviewed here) and now I have the pleasure of... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2019 CULTURE

• Review: Black Americans in Victorian Britain

  

  I'm sure a good number of you own the catalogue from the 2005 exhibition Black Victorians and have marvelled at the number of people of colour that populate... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2019 CULTURE

• Clementina Margaret Hull

  

  Today's post is by way of gathering some research in one place to help others. The subject of this post is Clementina Margaret Hull, a now-forgotten... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2019 CULTURE

• Review: A Victorian Lady's Guide to Fashion and Beauty

  

  I'm not one for women's magazines. I never really enjoyed reading what was in fashion or whether flats or heels are more attractive or whether a cream that cost... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2019 CULTURE