Description
Historian Maggie Winegarden decides she needs to spend some time away from her partner Bethany, who is upset over Maggies desire to be a painter. Maggie visits the seaside town of Hastings and while in St. Clements Church discovers that poet Christina Rossetti and artist Elizabeth Lizzie Siddal had been frequent visitors to Hastings and the church. Agatha, the church caretaker, shows Maggie a chest of papers in the catacombs that the vicar said belonged to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Maggie discovers the papers are actually the lost diaries of Christina and Lizzie. She learns that Christinas and Lizzies lives are intertwined beyond being sisters-in-law, that they become intimate friends and establish a community of women artists and poets, a Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood in Lizzies ancestral home, Hope Hall.
Maggie is joined by Bethany and Agatha in the quest to solve the mystery of how the diaries were buried in the St. Clements Church catacombs and uncover surprising revelations on the origins of Christinas most famous poem Goblin Market.
Wrapped in a modern-day mystery, The Rossetti Diaries is a historical re-imagining that explores the indomitable artistic aspirations and achievements of the poet Christina Rossetti and the artist Elizabeth Siddal.
Author: Kathleen Williams Renk
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company
Published: 11/02/2023
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9781960373151
Language: English
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