Kirsty Stonell Walker

LATEST ARTICLES ( 598 )

• Sunday 9th December: Annie Chinery

  

  I'd like to begin this blogpost by saying that I do love my mother-in-law very much. My own mother died shortly before my marriage, and Ma Walker did exactly th... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2018 CULTURE

• Saturday 8th December - Margaret Thompson Hannay

  

  I feel so guilty about today's post because I have absolutely no time, what with Christmas parties, shopping and writing cards so I needed a woman I could... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2018 CULTURE

• Friday 7th December - Ellen Heaton

  

  Today I get to talk about one of my least favourite paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It's not only that I don't feel it's a particularly good painting, but... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2018 CULTURE

• Thursday 6th December - Emily Marion Ritchie

  

  Although I always enjoy reading and writing about women in the past, occasionally I meet one who I really love and thoroughly delight in talking about. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2018 CULTURE

• Tuesday 5th December - Constance Gilchrist

  

  It struck me this morning that by writing about 24 women this month I'm doing the same level of work I did while writing Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang. Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2018 CULTURE

• Tuesday 4th December - Ruby StreatfeiId

  

  I would like to correct the statement I made yesterday when I said I loved it when I got to research someone with an unusual name as it made it easy to research. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2018 CULTURE

• Monday 3rd December - Cyllena Wilson

  

  As I referred to in this recent post, one of Julia Margaret Cameron's most striking models was Miss Cyllena Wilson. I must admit, I have a soft spot for any... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2018 CULTURE

• Sunday 2nd December - Princess Helen Rundheer Singh Ahluwalia

  

  Welcome back to Blogvent, and today we have a royal visitor, which has brought up a whole raft of other problems in research. The main issue I normally have whe... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2018 CULTURE

• Saturday 1st December - Red Lion Mary

  

  Hello and welcome to Blogvent! This is now the seventh year (is it really that long? My heavens, we were children when this blog began! Children! Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2018 CULTURE

• Cameron and Rossetti

  

  A bit of a holy grail for me is Julia Margaret Cameron's lost image of Christina Rossetti. We know that Cameron managed to capture an image of the poet as... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2018 CULTURE

• Sister Ethel Mary Lloyd SRN

  

  Today I'm straying out of my Victorian comfort-zone to talk about something very much on all our minds today: the First World War. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2018 CULTURE

• Review: China: Through the Lens of John Thomson

  

  Just opened at the Russell-Cotes is a rather smashing exhibition. It combines my twin delights of 19th century photography and beautiful women, in an... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2018 CULTURE

• The Trouble with Mary Pinnock

  

  You know me, I can never leave anything alone. I am always up for a challenge and possibly the worst thing anyone can say to me is 'you probably won't find... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2018 CULTURE

• In Defence of Rosa Corder

  

  Whilst writing Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang there were a couple of ladies that I really only had a passing knowledge of before researching for the book. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2018 CULTURE

• Review: My Ladys Soul: The Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall

  

  Whilst doing the rounds to publicize my new book Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang, I was mainly asked questions about one woman. Above any other Pre-Raphaelite woman,... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2018 CULTURE

• Stunning Cookery!

  

  I feel I should be doing this post in high heels, trotting around my tasteful kitchen, making saucy puns about basting and the size of my copper pans, but... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2018 CULTURE

• Let's Not Go to Hanging Rock...

  

  As I am typing this, I am aware of the irony that I am about to tell you all about picnics whilst it is raining hard. Actual proper sky water (as my daughter... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2018 CULTURE

• From Fun to Nun...

  

  "It has been a wonderful life. It passed through many dark places but there was always light enough to walk by and now, thank God, He is bringing me to the... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2018 CULTURE

• Review: Beyond Ophelia: A Celebration of Lizzie Siddal, Artist and Poet

  

  Yesterday I had an utterly splendid time visiting the Midlands, popping into Cadbury World (the happiest place on earth with a scrummy shop), Birmingham (with... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2018 CULTURE

• Mistress of None

  

  Hello again and apologies for the brief break in service. I have been busy at work on my book about Pre-Raphaelite women, due out at in the Autumn (and availabl... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2018 CULTURE