Kirsty Stonell Walker became an Historian of the Victorian, mainly because it rhymed. In almost twenty years' worth of study she has written the only biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's most notorious model and muse, Fanny Cornforth. In 2012, she updated the text, adding further appendices and illustrations, to cover all new research and material that has arisen since the publication of the first edition in 2006, including the BBC series Desperate Romantics. Kirsty is also the author of 'A Curl of Copper and Pearl', published in Spring 2014, about the life and loves of Pre-Raphaelite muse, Alexa Wilding. In 2015 she published her latest novel, We Are Villains All, a murder mystery centred on the lives of a Victorian poet and his best friend, a photographer. She has written The Kissed Mouth blog (www.fannycornforth.blogspot.com) since 2011, airing Victorian dirty linen in a humorous and thought-provoking way.