220. Christina Rossetti — Speaking Likenesses with Ayana Christie
Portrait of Christina Rossetti by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Charmed by her friend Lewis Carroll’s children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti followed suit nearly a decade later with her own children’s book — one that alludes to the “Alice” tale while also offering a more clear-eyed view of girls’ duties, even in topsy-turvy dream worlds. Ayana Christie, Chief Product Officer of Bond & Grace, joins us for a discussion this week on Rossetti’s 1874 work Speaking Likenesses and helps us draw comparisons with Carroll’s seminal tale.
Mentioned in this episode:
Speaking Likenesses by Christina Rossetti
Bond & Grace edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Bond & Grace edtiion of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Bond & Grace edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti
The Rosetti family photographic portrait by Lewis Carroll
Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life by Jan Marsh
Lewis Carroll (a.k.a. Charles Dodgson)
The real-life Alice in Wonderland
The Princess Bride film
“Be Our Guest” number from Beauty & the Beast