Kirsty Stonell Walker

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• Sunday 6th December - Winter

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick (as the actress said to the bishop) because I have a million and one things to do today. Lily-Rose, my daughter, is a decad... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2015 CULTURE

• Saturday 5th December - Black and White

  

  Today's muff comes from slightly later than we are used to, but I couldn't resist as it is such a striking picture...Black and White (1930s) Dod ProcterBorn in... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2015 CULTURE

• Friday 4th December - Lady Cynthia Asquith

  

  Today's muff is very classy indeed and corresponds to people we've talked about before. Here we have Lady Cynthia Asquith by Edmund Dulac... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2015 CULTURE

• Thursday 3rd December - Portrait of an Unknown Woman

  

  I'm feeling a bit Russian today, in the mood to sit in a sleigh and fall in love with some random bloke on a horse, then hurl myself under a train. Hang on, tha... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2015 CULTURE

• Wednesday 2nd December - Miss Donald the Housekeeper at Cliffe Castle

  

  Well, it is proving to be a bit of an eventful Muffvent so far. Yesterday our boiler stopped working and my daughter threw up and so today will be spent with a... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2015 CULTURE

• Tuesday 1st December: Welcome to Muffvent!

  

  Well, here we are again! I can't believe this is the fourth blogvent I have done here at The Kissed Mouth and I have to admit I love every minute of it even... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2015 CULTURE

• Exhibition Review: Enchanted Dreams

  

  For my final review of the week, here's one that is very overdue indeed. I visited Enchanted Dreams: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of E R. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2015 CULTURE

• Review: Julia Margaret Cameron at the Science Museum

  

  Second review of the week comes from the other exhibition in London celebrating the bicentenary of Julia Margaret Cameron. After I had finished at the press... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2015 CULTURE

• Review: Julia Margaret Cameron at the V&A

  

  As you might have noticed, 2015 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), but it also marks 150 years since Cameron's first and... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2015 CULTURE

• We Are Villains All: Five Bits of Stuff

  

  Hello Chaps, and welcome to my new novel, We Are Villains All, published this week! I very much hope you will buy it and enjoy it and so I wanted to tell you... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2015 CULTURE

• Review: Beasts Or Best Friends

  

  How on earth do you follow Mucha? The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum in Bournemouth managed to pull off possibly the best exhibition I've seen in ages thi... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2015 CULTURE

• #PRB Day: Christina Rossetti, the Unlikely Flapper

  

  Happy PRB Day, hosted by the Pre-Raphaelite Society and a jolly good excuse for enjoying the many facetted wonder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2015 CULTURE

• Review of 'Virginia Woolf's Influential Forebears' and Q&A with Marion Dell

  

  As you will probably know, I had the great pleasure of giving a paper at this summer's conference on Julia Margaret Cameron. Whilst there, wearing my Julia... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2015 CULTURE

• The Third Mary

  

  I think that it is no secret that I enjoy researching the lives of artists' models. Unlike the artists they sit for, often models' lives have infinitely more... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2015 CULTURE

• We Are Villains All - A Sneak Peek!

  

  Well, the publication day of my new novel We Are Villains All is almost upon us and so I thought I may give you a sneaky peek at the opening of the story where... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 CULTURE

• The (Semi-)Naked Ladies of Prague (and Me)

  

  If you were wondering why I was a bit quiet last week it is because I was having a marvellous time in Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 CULTURE

• Book Review: The Looking Glass House

  

  I am in the very pleasant position of having a bevy of books on my desk to review, so I ought to crack on with it before my own is out! Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2015 CULTURE

• Man-Damsel in Distress!

  

  Although not as instantly remembered as Ophelia or The Lady of Shalott, surely one of the most familiar Victorian paintings with Pre-Raphaelite leanings has to... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 CULTURE

• Film Review: Crimson Peak

  

  In the second film review of my week, after Suffragette on Monday, we have Crimson Peak, a gothic rollercoaster, filled with blood, betrayal and... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2015 CULTURE

• Film Review: Suffragette

  

  Unless you have been avoiding all forms of media this week, you will have heard that the new film about the suffragettes is on general release today. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2015 CULTURE