KATHERINE MANSFIELD: THE STORYTELLER

LEARNING NOT TO BE FIRST: THE LIFE OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

Christina was the youngest of the four Rossetti children, born in England to Italian parents. Although she and her brother, the artist Dante Gabriel, were known as the 'two storms', Christina's passionate nature was curbed in a way that her brother's was not, as she submitted to the social and religious pressures that lay so heavily on Victorian women. Kathleen Jones looks at Christina’s life alongside that of other nineteenth-century women writers – notably Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson.

A PASSIONATE SISTERHOOD

The Lake Poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey - give a romantic view of the Lake District. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. Their letters and journals all contribute to an understanding of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey as fallible human beings.