Kirsty Stonell Walker

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• Tuesday 18th December: Susan Muir-Mackenzie

  

  It's a lovely feeling when you discover the model of one of your favourite paintings by one artist also modelled for another of your favourite artists. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2018 CULTURE

• Monday 17th December: The Armstrong Sisters

  

  We are week away from Christmas Eve and today's post is as much about a painting as it is about the models. Plus, because I am in the Christmas-y mood, I bring... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2018 CULTURE

• Sunday 16th December: Christina Spartali

  

  Ah, Sunday! Despite having to go and find some bathroom tiles today, I have the luxury of spending the day finding a long and happily-lived woman who had a joll... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2018 CULTURE

• Saturday 15th December: Annie Keene

  

  Only ten days to Christmas and only nine Blogvents left and so let's crack on with our lady of the day and she will be a very familiar face to all Cameron... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2018 CULTURE

• Friday 14th December: Jane Hales

  

  One of my favourite stories about Evelyn de Morgan is when her sister, Mrs Anna Stirling visited the Russell-Cotes at Gallery and saw their massive painting... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2018 CULTURE

• Thursday 13th December: Florence Beatrice Anson

  

  As I talked about in Tuesday 4th December's post on Ruby Streatfeild, researching the peerage is a damn sight easier than some friendless seamstress, no... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2018 CULTURE

• Wednesday 12th December - Beatrice Buckstone

  

  Here we are, half way through Blogvent already! Today's is a bit harrowing, so feel free to have a stiff drink handy. It concerns cute little uber-poppet,... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2018 CULTURE

• Tuesday 11th December - Sarah Brown

  

  A spot of naughty fun for today as there has been far too much early death and depression so far and we are almost half way through! Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2018 CULTURE

• Monday 10th December - Jane Senior

  

  Today might be a bit of a ramble, so bear with me. I wanted to talk about Mrs Nassau Senior, Jeanie Senior, and that wonderful portrait of her by G F Watts,... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2018 CULTURE

• 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