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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 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

Christina Rossetti

“Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti

Gabriele Rossetti

Dante Gabriel 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 Liddell sisters

The real-life Alice in Wonderland

The Princess Bride film

“Be Our Guest” number from Beauty & the Beast

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