Christina Rossetti — Speaking Likenesses with Bond & Grace's Ayana Christie

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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 (archive.org/details/speakinglikeness00ross/pag…) by Christina Rossetti
Bond & Grace edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (bondandgrace.com/products/alice-in-wonderland-…) by Lewis Carroll
Bond & Grace edtiion of The Secret Garden (bondandgrace.com/products/the-secret-garden-ar…) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Bond & Grace edition of Frankenstein (bondandgrace.com/products/frankenstein-art-novel) by Mary Shelley
Christina Rossetti (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti)
“Goblin Market” (poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market) by Christina Rossetti
Gabriele Rossetti (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Rossetti)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti)
The Rosetti family photographic portrait (npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw05460…) by Lewis Carroll
Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life (amazon.com/Christina-Rossetti-Writers-Jan-Mars…) by Jan Marsh
Lewis Carroll (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll) (a.k.a. Charles Dodgson)
The Liddell sisters (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Liddell_wit…)
The real-life Alice in Wonderland (bondandgrace.com/lit-talk/the-real-life-alice-…)
The Princess Bride (imdb.com/title/tt0093779) film
“Be Our Guest” number (youtube.com/watch?v=afzmwAKUppU) from Beauty & the Beast
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