Light and Love: The Extraordinary Developments of Julia Margaret Cameron and Mary Hillier

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When fourteen-year-old Mary Hillier delivered a message to photographer Julia Margaret Camerons door, little did she know what her life would become
Julia Margaret Cameron received her first camera as a gift when she was forty-eight but her love affair with the medium had already spanned several decades and continents. An enthusiast for this newly invented device, she travelled the world befriending experts who taught her the magic and the science of the lens such as the astronomer John Herschel, and pioneering photographers like her brother in law the Earl Somers and the Swedish risk-taking artist Oscar Rejlander.
Beginning as Julias parlour maid, Mary went on to become the photographers leading model and the focus of the artists creative passion. For Julia, Mary personified the heavenly qualities of her quiet corner of England. For Mary, Julias influence would echo throughout her life. This is a biography of two women who experienced beauty, love, loss and fame, and created photographs that, in Julias own words, should electrify you with delight and startle the world. Spanning the French Revolution to the 1930s,Light and Lovetells the story of a rare partnership of a pioneer and her muse, and how their relationship would change the course of both of their lives.

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Kirsty Stonell Walkers research on Pre-Raphaelite women spanned a quarter of a century, the rest of which was Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang (2017). A fascination for the lives of the women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Kirsty wrote a biography of notorious artists model Fanny Cornforth Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth in 2006. Since 2011, she has written a blog, The Kissed Mouth, where she publishes original research on the many models of the Pre-Raphaelites. She has also written two novels about Victorian artists as well as giving talks to art groups and museums on her subject.