Description: A blog focused on Victorian era and the 19th century.
Get to know the personal side of nineteenth century and Victorian era painters, poets, artists and authors.
‘Beggars can’t be choosers. They really can’t.’
Based on true historical events, Arresting Beauty follows the extraordinary story of Mary Ryan, who was found begging on Putney Heath at the age of ten by the celebrated Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Julia takes Mary into her magnificently bohemian household, to be trained as a maid and educated alongside her own sons, before becoming an assistant, muse and model for Julia in many of her pioneering photographs.