Kirsty Stonell Walker

Kirsty Stonell Walker has spent the last twenty years researching Victorian art and social history, specialising in the lives of Pre-Raphaelite models. In 2006 she published the biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mistress, Fanny Cornforth, producing an extended and illustrated edition in 2012. She published her first novel, A Curl of Copper and Pearl in 2013 based on the life of Alexa Wilding, another of Rossetti's models. In addition to this, she gives talks on the Victorian art scene and...See more

Kirsty Stonell Walker has spent the last twenty years researching Victorian art and social history, specialising in the lives of Pre-Raphaelite models. In 2006 she published the biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mistress, Fanny Cornforth, producing an extended and illustrated edition in 2012. She published her first novel, A Curl of Copper and Pearl in 2013 based on the life of Alexa Wilding, another of Rossetti's models. In addition to this, she gives talks on the Victorian art scene and has written numerous articles. She also writes The Kissed Mouth blog, airing the dirty laundry of Victorian art world since 2011. See less